Roger Mudd

DeathMarch 92021

Roger Mudd

Roger Mudd, American journalist (born 1928)

5th anniversary in 2026

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When
Tuesday, March 9 20215 years ago
Category
DeathA notable person who died on this day.
Era
21st century · 2020s
Anniversary
5th in 2026
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Person
Roger Mudd

At a glance

Born 1928-02-09; died 2021-03-09.

Known as: television presenter, journalist, and news presenter. Citizenship: United States.

Listed as: human.

Who they were

Personal life Mudd resided in McLean, Virginia . He was married to the former E. J. Spears of Richmond, Virginia, who died in 2011. They had three sons and a daughter: Daniel , the former CEO of Fortress Investment Group LLC and the former CEO of Fannie Mae ; [ 1 ] the singer and songwriter Jonathan Mudd; the author Maria Mudd Ruth; and Matthew Mudd. He was survived by 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Roger Harrison Mudd was an American broadcast journalist who was a correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News. He also worked as the primary anchor for the History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor for CBS Evening News, co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News, and host of the NBC-TV's Meet the Press and American Almanac TV programs. Mudd was a recipient of a Peabody Award, a Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five Emmy Awards.

Early life

Educated at: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Washington and Lee University, and Jackson-Reed High School.

Early life and education Mudd was born in Washington, D.C. [ 1 ] His father, a World War I veteran, John Kostka Dominic Mudd, was the son of a tobacco farmer and worked as a map maker for the United States Geological Survey . His mother, Irma Iris Harrison, was the daughter of a farmer and was a nurse and lieutenant in the United States Army Nurse Corps serving in the physiotherapy ward in the Walter Reed Hospital , where she met Roger's father. [ 2 ]

Path and career

Awards / honours: Peabody Awards, George Polk Award, and News and Documentary Emmy Awards.

Career Mudd began his journalism career in Richmond, Virginia , where he was a reporter for The Richmond News Leader and for radio station WRNL . [ 1 ] At the News Leader , he worked at the rewrite desk during spring 1953 and became a summer replacement on June 15 that year. [ 2 ] The News Leader ran its first story with a Mudd byline on June 19, 1953. [ 3 ] At WRNL radio, Mudd presented the daily noon newscast. In his memoir The Place to Be , Mudd [ 4 ]

Why this date

Roger Mudd appears on our March 9 calendar for 2021 as a death entry.

March 9 through the years

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