David Jason Muir was born on the 8th November 1973 in Syracuse, New York USA. He is known to the world as a television reporter and anchorman of the ABC Show “ABC World News Tonight with David Muir”. His career as a reporter has earned him several awards, including an honorary award, which he received for his reports of the assassinations of Israel`s PM, from Radio-Television News Directors Association. His career as an anchor and reporter has been active since 1995.
Have you ever wondered how rich David Muir is? According to sources it is estimated that David`s net worth is $7 million, an amount earned through his successful career as a reporter and anchorman, mostly on ABC News.
David Muir Net Worth $7 Million
David Muir was actually raised in Onondaga Hill, where he attended and graduated from Onondaga Junior-Senior High School in May 1991. His education consists of a number of prestigious universities in America as well in the world, He is a graduate of the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College,with magna cum laude and a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1995. Muir also expanded his knowledge in Institute of Political Journalism, while he was still in college, at the Fund for American Studies at Georgetown University. In addition, he also attended the University of Salamanca in Spain.
His career as a reporter started in 1995, when he began working for WHTV in Syracuse, where he earned an honorary award for his reports of the assassinations of Israel`s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. This event really launched his career. Until the year 2000 he stayed on WHTV, and won several awards for his reporting, being named as “Best Local News Anchors”. His net worth grew accordingly.
Following this success, Muir moved to Boston in order to work on WCVB television.
This move have progressed his career; resulting with the winning of the regional Edward R. Murrow award and several others for his successful investigative reporting of the attacks which happened on the 11th September 2001. These influenced his career considerably, as he was now known nationwide and the Associated Press recognized his reports. Again his net worth benefited considerably.
His big break has happened in 2003, his career went way up high, as he joined the ABC News, and has stayed with them until the present day. He started as the anchor of the news program that was aired through the night, “Worlds News Now”, although his influence on ABC News gradually grew; Muir became the anchor in 2007 of the show “World News Saturday”. In 2012 he became a main anchor of the weekend newscast, which was called “World News with David Muir”. In addition, in March 2013, he was promoted to the spot of the co-anchor, to work together with Elizabeth Vargas, on the ABC`s 20\20. These promotions earned him a salary of $5 million per year. As of 2014, he became the anchor and managing editor of ABC World News; his debut broadcast was on 1st September 2014.
Overall, his career is quite successful. His reports have been from various destinations, from Peru to Ukraine, reporting about earthquakes, political revolution in Egypt, and even about the Hurricane Katarina in New Orleans.
Regarding his personal life, in 2014 Muir was selected as one of the sexiest man alive by People Magazine. Also, his media presence is related to his sexuality, as although it has never been confirmed or denied, it is assumed that Muir is gay. However he has never stepped out with a statement about his sexuality.
