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Roger Mudd: CBS, NBC And PBS Reporter Dies At 93

Roger Mudd: CBS, NBC And PBS Reporter Dies At 93
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Roger Mudd, a longtime news reporter for CBS, NBC and PBS, has died at the age of 93. The sad news of his death was reported on Tuesday 9th March 2021, as he was reported to have died of complications from kidney failure at his home in McLean, Virginia. 

Roger Mudd, famous for a 1979 interview with Senator Ted Kennedy, memorably spoke to the Massachusetts lawmaker days before he intended to announce his run for the 1980 Democratic ticket. “Why do you want to be president?,” Mudd asked simply.

“Well, I’m, uh, were I to make the announcement to run, the reasons that I would run is because I have a great belief in this country … We’re facing complex issues and problems in this nation at this time but we have faced similar challenges at other times … And I would basically feel that it’s imperative for this country to move forward, that it can’t stand still, for otherwise it moves backward,” Kennedy said stammeringly.

Kennedy’s poll numbers sank as a result and he did not earn the nomination. It instead went to former President Jimmy Carter. Mudd, meanwhile, who won a Peabody Award for the interview.

Reacting to the sad news, the president and senior executive producer of CBS News, Susan Zirinsky said:

“Roger was a hero in the CBS News Washington bureau.

He was a journalist of enormous integrity and character. He would not budge if he believed he was right and would not compromise his ethical standards. He was an inspiration to all of us in the bureau. 

On a personal note, I sat directly across from him in the D.C. newsroom, Roger was big, not just in his physical presence but he was larger than life.”

Roger Mudd began his career in the 1950s as a reporter for the Washington radio and television station WTOP. In 1961, he was hired by CBS to cover Congress.

In the 1980s, Mudd jumped to NBC when he did not get Walter Cronkite’s position on “CBS Evening News.” (CBS named Dan Rather instead.)

At NBC, Mudd worked as chief Washington correspondent and joined Tom Brokaw on the “Nightly News”.

Soon after, Mudd switched to PBS, where he reported for “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” from 1987 to 1992. He also taught at Princeton University and at his alma mater, Washington and Lee University, and hosted documentaries on The History Channel from 1995 until he retired in 2005.

In 2008, Mudd published his memoir, The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News.

In 2010, Mr. Mudd donated $4 million to Washington and Lee, establishing the Roger Mudd Center for the Study of Professional Ethics and to endow a Roger Mudd professorship in ethics.

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