See Resurfaced Footage Of David Muir's Early News Anchoring Days In College

David Muir has become a mainstay of broadcast news, anchoring "ABC World News Tonight" since 2014 and co-anchoring "20/20" since 2013. His journalism career has taken him all over the world, and Muir's reported from some wild places over the years. But long before he made primetime and won multiple Emmy awards, Muir was the anchor for ICTVNews as a student at Ithaca College in the mid 1990s. It was a much coveted position, and as you'd expect from Muir, he was a true professional. When you watch the footage of Muir reporting on the local elections in 1993, not only do you get to see Muir's early days as a broadcaster, but it also confirms that Muir is truly aging like fine wine.

It's fun to see this glimpse into the newscaster's life before he was famous. One commenter on YouTube said that the segment was "definitely a glimpse of a very bright future."

Muir's journalism career actually started before he was in college. His first ever newsroom job was when he was just a teenager. At 13, he wrote to CNY Central's WTVH and got himself an internship. "They had a growth chart on the newsroom wall where, each summer and school break, I came in, they'd mark me up on the wall and measure how much I'd grown, and they would often joke about how many octaves my voice had dropped," he told Syracuse.com in 2016.

Working in the newsroom was something that David Muir had wanted to do for a long time. He grew up loving to watch the news in the evening and to find and tell stories. Muir even built his own play TV set at home out of cardboard boxes where he'd read the news, according to Time.

Once he got the job at the TV channel as a teen, he was ready to do whatever was needed. As he explained to Broadcasting+Cable in 2018, "I was carrying the tripod and ripping the scripts when we had like 5-ply paper for the anchors, and fetching their Cokes out of the Coke machine."

But putting in all the unglamorous grunt work was worth it for Muir as it got him closer to his dream, and his time in that first news position has stayed with him. "I vividly remember getting in those news cruisers on James Street in Syracuse and going out to the severe storms in Oswego County or the Syracuse Common Council meetings," Muir said to Broadcasting+Cable. "I think back to being the kid in the back of that car and I'm grateful to those photographers and reporters for allowing me to come along for the ride."