Roger Mudd

Roger Harrison Mudd (February 9, 1928 – March 9, 2021) was an American broadcast journalist. He worked as the primary anchor for The History Channel. 

Mudd was the weekend and weekday substitute anchor for the CBS Evening News, the co-anchor of the weekday NBC Nightly News, and the host of the NBC-TV Meet the Press, and American Almanac TV programs. 

Mudd was the winner of the Peabody Award, the Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five Emmy Awards.

Mudd died on March 9, 2021 in McLean, Virginia from problems caused by kidney failure, aged 93.

References

Other websites
 Official Web Site
Booknotes interview with Mudd on Great Minds of History, June 6, 1999. 
C-SPAN Q&A interview with Mudd, about The Place To Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News, March 30 and April 6, 2008

Category:American Emmy Award winners
Category:1928 births
Category:2021 deaths
Category:Deaths from renal failure
Category:American television news anchors
Category:Journalists from Washington, D.C.