Walter Cronkite’s journey is interesting. He started out as a news-obsessed kid in a Syracuse suburb, and now he’s a famous news anchor. 

David Muir wanted to be ‘the next Dan Rather’ as a child. 

For example, in Year 7, he wrote to Ron Curtis, the newsreader in his hometown of Syracuse, New York, asking him how he could start his career in journalism. 

He decided to go to the headquarters of Curtis’ TV station, WTVH and said he wanted to volunteer.

Muir kept coming back for years, and the station staff even started tracking his growth. 

David Muir’s journalism studies took him to Spain. While at Ithaca College, he studied at the University of Salamanca. Muir had always wanted to travel the world as a journalist, so going to Spain was perfect. 

He started as a local news anchor in Syracuse before moving on to Boston. After graduating, David Muir went back to Syracuse, New York. All the volunteering he did for WTVH as a teenager helped when he got a job as a reporter at the station. He worked his way up and became a newsreader at a TV station in a big city called Boston. After five years in Syracuse, he moved to a bigger market, becoming a reporter at WCVB in Boston. 

David Muir joined ABC News in 2003 and quickly made his mark. After establishing himself as a broadcast journalist in Syracuse and then Boston, David Muir entered the big leagues when he was hired by ABC News in 2003. At first, he presented “World News Now,” ABC’s overnight news show. He also reported on current events for people who like to watch late at night and became one of the principal correspondents for ABC News. This meant he was sent worldwide to cover all kinds of breaking news. 

After joining ABC News, David Muir became increasingly popular. In 2009, the entertainment news website TMZ called him “the Brad Pitt of news anchors.” Then, he was promoted to lead correspondent covering the 2012 presidential election. Muir became even more famous after his interview with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. He asked Romney many questions about his tax returns.

At the same time, he continued to present the weekend editions of “World News Tonight,” which helped the show get better ratings by bringing viewers reports from different parts of the world. These included Cairo (where he covered the Tahrir Square revolution), post-tsunami Japan, and Mogadishu, where he was the first American news anchor to report on the famine in Somalia. During that trip, he and his crew were fired upon while reporting on efforts to deliver aid to starving refugees.

In 2014, David Muir achieved a childhood dream by becoming the anchor of “World News Tonight.” 

After Donald Trump won the election, Muir was the first to interview the new president since he took office. 

Viewers of ABC’s “World News Tonight” have been increasing since David Muir took charge, but in 2020, the number of people watching went up even more. The New York Times says that the start of the Coronavirus pandemic made more Americans watch the news at night. 

The Times said that “World News Tonight” ratings were very close to those of “NBC Nightly News”, presented by Lester Holt. The number of people watching each show had increased to about 12 million – the same as those who watched “Monday Night Football” each week. The ratings for “World News Tonight” were the best in 20 years; the last time the show got that many viewers was in 2000. 

He keeps his personal life private, but he’s very fond of his dog, Axel. David Muir has not shared much about his personal life while working for ABC News, which has led to a lot of speculation about his love life and sexual orientation.

But he has been open about his relationship with his dog, Axel. He first introduced Axel when his pet was a puppy in a 2019 Instagram post.