David Muir, an award-winning ABC News correspondent and 1995 graduate of Ithaca College’s Roy H. Park School of Communications will return to his alma mater on Wednesday, April 4, as this year’s speaker in the Jessica Savitch Distinguished Journalism Lecture Series.
David Muir '95
“Witness to War and Disaster: From Hurricane Katrina to War in the Middle East, Giving Victims a Voice,”
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
7:30 p.m. in Park Hall Auditorium
Free and open to the public
Bio:
Since joining ABC News, Muir has been a lead correspondent on several major breaking news stories. In August 2006, he reported from the Israel-Lebanon border covering the Israeli war with Hezbollah. A year earlier, Muir was inside the Superdome as Hurricane Katrina hit, and he stayed in New Orleans to cover the unfolding crisis. His reports for “World News Tonight,” “Primetime” and “20/20” revealed the deteriorating conditions inside the Convention Center and Charity Hospital.
Muir filed reports from Texas during Hurricane Rita and from Florida during Hurricane Wilma. He was on the scene during catastrophic wildfires in the Midwest and Plains states as well the mudslides in La Conchita, Calif. in 2005. In addition, Muir reported from West Virginia on the letters left behind by the coal miners during the Sago Coal Mine tragedy for “Primetime.”
Muir has contributed to several in-depth series on “World News,” including “America: Over a Barrel,” “Cancer: Beating the Odds,” and the broadcast’s ongoing look at identity theft.
Prior to joining ABC News, Muir distinguished himself as an award-winning anchor for WCVB-TV in Boston. He spent a month covering the war in Iraq. Muir's reporting helped earn the station a National Headliner Award.
Jessica Savitch Distinguished Journalism Lecture Series:
This series is sponsored by the Roy H. Park School of Communications. It honors the 1968 Ithaca College graduate who became an Emmy Award–winning NBC News anchor and correspondent. Previous speakers in the series have included Andrea Mitchell, Ann Curry, John Seigenthaler, Mara Liasson, and Cokie Roberts.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20070323111113163