In 1977, Mudd received an honorary doctorate from Washington and Lee University, his alma mater. He was also an English and history teacher and football coach at Darlington School in Rome, Georgia. Before that, he was news director at WRNL Radio in Richmond, Virginia, a reporter for the Richmond News Leader and a research assistant with the House Committee on Tax-Exempt Foundation. In 1990, he received the Joan Shorenstein Barone award for distinguished Washington reporting.īefore joining CBS News, Mudd worked at radio station WTOP in Washington. The memorably named Mudd-Trout team did not conquer NBC’s duo, and Cronkite was back as anchor on election night that November. Mudd was the narrator of the program, which the Peabody judges said was “electronic journalism at its best.”Įarly in his career at CBS, Mudd was teamed with Robert Trout to anchor coverage of the 1964 Democratic convention after CBS - using Walter Cronkite as anchor - trailed NBC’s Chet Huntley and David Brinkley in the ratings at the Republican convention. He also was a host and correspondent for The History Channel from 1995 to 2004.Īmong his other awards over the years, Mudd shared in a Peabody for the 1970 CBS documentary “The Selling of the Pentagon,” which looked at the military’s public relations efforts. Mudd left the “NewsHour” in 1992 to teach journalism at Princeton University, describing the offer to teach at the Ivy League school as simply too appealing to turn down. He hosted a number of reports on American history and education, including “Learning in America: Schools That Work” and “The Wizard: Thomas Alva Edison.” In five years on “NewsHour,” Mudd served as a senior correspondent, essayist and occasional anchor. Mudd spent a fair amount of time in the “CBS Evening News” anchor chair, substituting for Walter Cronkite when he was off and anchoring the Saturday evening news broadcasts from 1966 to 1973. It was enough to prompt New York Times columnist Tom Wicker to give Kennedy the “Safire Prize for Nattering Nabob of the Year.” Carter went on to win the nomination for a second term, only to fall to Ronald Reagan in the general election.Īs Mudd told viewers: “On the stump Kennedy can be dominating, imposing and masterful, but off the stump, in personal interviews, he can become stilted, elliptical and at times appear as if he really doesn’t want America to get to know him.” … 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.” … We’re facing complex issues and problems in this nation at this time but we have faced similar challenges at other times. “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. He wrote a memoir, “The Place To Be,” which came out in early 2008, and described the challenges and clashing egos he encountered working in Washington, where among other things he covered Congress for CBS for 15 years. When he joined Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer’s show in 1987, Mudd told The Associated Press: “I think they regard news and information and fact and opinion with a reverence and respect that really is admirable.” His career coincided with the flowering of television news, the pre-cable, pre-Internet days when the big three networks and their powerhouse ranks of reporters were the main source of news for millions of Americans.īesides work at CBS and NBC, he did stints on PBS’s “MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” and the History Channel. He was 93.ĬBS News says Mudd died Tuesday of complications of kidney failure at his home in McLean, Virginia.ĭuring more than 30 years on network television, starting with CBS in 1961, Mudd covered Congress, elections and political conventions and was a frequent anchor and contributor to various specials. Edward Kennedy by simply asking why he wanted to be president, has died. Roger Mudd, the longtime political correspondent and anchor for NBC and CBS who once stumped Sen. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.

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