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Roger Mudd (born February 9, 1928) is an American broadcast journalist, most recently working as the primary anchor for The History Channel. Previously, Mudd was 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 is the winner of the Peabody Award, the Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five Emmy Awards. ==Early life and career== Mudd was born in Washington, D.C. His father, John Kostka Dominic Mudd, was the son of a tobacco farmer, and he worked as a map maker for the United States Geological Survey, and his mother, Irma Iris Harrison, was the daughter of a farmer and she was a lieutenant for the U.S. Army Nursing Corps and then a nurse at the physiotherapy ward in the Walter Reed Hospital, where she met Roger's father. Roger Mudd received a B.A. degree from Washington and Lee University in 1950 – where one of his classmates was author Tom Wolfe – and an M.A. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1953. Mudd is a member of Delta Tau Delta international fraternity.〔http://www.delts.org/about/famousdelts.html Retrieved 2012-02-19〕 Mudd began his journalism career in Richmond, Virginia as a reporter for ''The Richmond News Leader'' and for radio station WRNL. At the ''News Leader'', he worked at the rewrite desk during spring 1953 and became a summer replacement on June 15 that year. The ''News Leader'' ran its first story with a Mudd byline on June 19, 1953. At WRNL radio, Mudd did the daily noon newscast. In his memoir ''The Place to Be'', Mudd describes an incident from his first day at WRNL in which he laughed hysterically on-air after mangling a news item about the declining health of Pope Pius XII. Because Mudd failed to silence his microphone properly, an engineer intervened. WRNL later gave Mudd his own daily broadcast, ''Virginia Headlines''. In the fall of 1954, Mudd enrolled in the University of Richmond School of Law but he dropped out after one semester. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roger Mudd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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