STATE PRESS GROUP HONORS ROGER MUDD.(LOCAL) - The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) | HighBeam Research

Byline: ASSOCIATED PRESS

VIRGINIA BEACH -- Former CBS and NBC newsman Roger Mudd received the Parks-Mason Virginian of the Year Award on Saturday from the Virginia Press Association.

Mudd, 69, worked as a CBS News correspondent for 19 years, was co-anchor of the NBC Nightly News for two years and co-anchor of NBC's ``Meet the Press.''

Mudd began his journalism career in 1953 as a reporter for the now-defunct Richmond News-Leader and was news director at WRNL-AM in Richmond. He also worked as a reporter for WTOP-TV in Washington.

He joined CBS News in 1961 and moved to NBC in 1980. In 1982 and 1983, he and Tom Brokaw were co-anchors of the network's evening news program. …