Roger Mudd is a retired American broadcaster known for hosting NBC television’s Meet the Press. Roger Harrison Mudd was born on February 9, 1928 in Washington D.C.; his father, John, was a tobacco farmer and cartographer and his mother, Irma, was a lieutenant for the United States Army Nursing Corps. Roger Mudd attended and Washington and Lee University where he received his Bachelor of Art. He went on to earn his Master’s Degree from the University of North Carolina. Roger Mudd began his career in journalism at The Richmond News Leader in 1953 working as both a reporter and as a news broadcaster on the paper’s sister radio station WRNL.
Roger Mudd worked at CBS news throughout the 1960’s, covering the civil rights movement and numerous political campaigns, including Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential bid; Roger interviewed Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles just moments before his assassination. Roger Mudd published his autobiography, The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News, in March of 2008. Roger Mudd was married to the former E. J. Spears of Richmond, the couple had four children and Roger has eleven grandchildren. In 2010, Roger Mudd donated four million dollars to his alma mater to establish the Roger Mudd Center for the Study of Professional Ethics.
| Birth Date: | 9 Feb, 1928 |
| Age: | 92 yrs |
| Occupations: | Television presenter Journalist News presenter |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Washington, D.C. |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American television news reporter and anchor |
| Net Worth 2020: | 5 million |
| Net Worth 2021: | 40 million |
