About Roger Mudd
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. The News Leader ran its first story with a Mudd byline on June 19, 1953. At first, Mudd did the 6:00 a.m. newscast for WTOP and local news segments on the local TV program Potomac Panorama. 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, mispronouncing his name as "Pipe Poeus". In the late 1950s, Mudd moved home to Washington, D.C., where he became a reporter for WTOP News, the news division of the radio and television stations owned by The Washington Post-Newsweek.
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