According to the Tyndall Report, Muir\'s news reporting received the most airtime in 2012 and 2013, making him one of the most visible journalists in America. World News Tonight with David Muir has become the most watched newscast in America. In 2013, TV Week called him one of the "12 to Watch in TV News".\n', 'Muir was listed as one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive in 2014.\n', '

Muir was born to a Roman Catholic family in Syracuse, New York, grew up in Onondaga Hill, and is fluent in Spanish. Muir has one older sibling and two younger step siblings, as well as six nieces and three nephews. As a child, he watched ABC News\' flagship program each night with his family, and credits longtime anchor Peter Jennings as his biggest journalistic influence. He graduated from Onondaga Central Junior-Senior High School in May 1991 and attended the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism in May 1995. While in college, Muir also attended the Institute on Political Journalism at the Fund for American Studies at Georgetown University and studied at the University of Salamanca in Spain with the Institute for the International Education of Students.\n', '

From 1995 to 2000, Muir worked as an anchor and a reporter at WTVH-TV in Syracuse, New York. Muir\'s reports from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Israel, and the Gaza Strip following the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin earned him top honors from the Radio-Television News Directors Association.[citation needed] The Associated Press honored Muir for Best Enterprise Reporting and Best Television Interview.[citation needed] The Syracuse Press Club recognized Muir as anchor of the "Best Local Newscast", and he was voted one of the "Best Local News Anchors" in Syracuse.\n', '

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