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Roger Mudd, Veteran CBS and NBC News Correspondent, Dies at 93 Antonio Ferme, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Roger Harrison Mudd, a longtime CBS News political correspondent and Peabody Award-winning journalist who was once seen as a potential heir to Walter Cronkite’s chair at “CBS Evening News,” died at his home in McLean, Va., on Tuesday. He was 93. His son, Jonathan Mudd, told the Washington Post the cause of death was complications from kidney failure. CBS News President Susan Zirinsky said Mudd was viewed as a “hero” in the CBS News Washington bureau. More from Variety “H...

The journalist died of complications from kidney failure on Tuesday

to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "He was a journalist of enormous integrity and character. He would not budge if he believed he was right and would not compromise his ethical standards," CBS News President Susan Zirinsky said in a statement about Mudd to CNN. In a written statement to the outlet, Mudd's family also added: "Roger loved and collected books, read good, old-fashioned newspapers, front to back, every morning of his life, and watched the evening news as much as he could stand." Mudd and his ...

Longtime NBC and CBS correspondent and television anchor Roger Mudd has died at the age of 93.

Roger Mudd Once considered Walter Cronkite's heir apparent, he was on the scene when Robert Kennedy was killed and later asked Ted Kennedy what seemed to be a routine question. Roger Mudd, the Peabody Award-winning journalist who spent a quarter-century at CBS News and NBC News and came close to becoming a No. 1 network anchorman — not that he wanted that, anyway — has died. He was 93. Mudd died Tuesday of complications from kidney failure at his home in McLean, Virginia, his son Jonathan Mudd told Mudd joined CBS News in 1961 and served as a congressional and national affairs correspon...