David Muir

Who is David Muir?

David Muir is an American journalist and anchor for ABC News, the news division of the ABC broadcast-television network based in New York City. Muir serves as the weekend anchor for the flagship ABC News broadcast World News and co-anchor of the ABC newsmagazine 20/20. In addition, Muir is a principal substitute for World News with Diane Sawyer on weeknights and will succeed Sawyer in September 2014. While at ABC News, David Muir has won multiple Emmy awards and Edward R. Murrow awards for his reporting both overseas and in the United States.

Muir is one of the most visible American journalists and the most used reporter in the history of ABC News. According to the Tyndall Report, his reporting received the most airtime in both 2011 and 2012. TV Week has called him one of the "12 to Watch in TV News" and TMZ, a celebrity news website, has called him "the Brad Pitt of News Anchors".