Roger Mudd is an Emmy Award-winning U.S. television journalist and broadcaster, most recently the primary anchor for The History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend anchor of CBS Evening News, co-anchor of NBC Nightly News, and hosted NBC's Meet the Press.

While with CBS News in the 1970’s, Mudd was the weekend anchor for the CBS Evening News. He was also the congressional and national affairs correspondent for the CBS Evening News.

Mudd chose to leave CBS News and accepted an offer to co-anchor NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, which he did from 1982 until 1983. From 1984 to 1985, he was co-anchor of NBC's Meet the Press with Marvin Kalb.

From 1987 to 1992, he was an essayist and political correspondent with the MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour on PBS. He was a visiting professor at Princeton University and Washington and Lee University from 1992 to 1996. Mudd was also a primary anchor for over ten years with The History Channel, where many of his programs are often repeated in reruns. He retired from full-time broadcasting in 2004, yet remains involved with documentaries for The History Channel.

Mudd is the recipient of the George Foster Peabody Award, the Joan Shorenstein Award for Distinguished Washington Reporting, and five Emmy Awards.

Mudd received a B.A. degree from Washington and Lee University in 1950 and a Master's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1951. He began his journalist career in Richmond, Virginia as a reporter for the Richmond News Leader and for radio station WRNL.

Mr. Mudd has always jumped to help Washington and Lee University in any way he can. In just the fall of 2006, he moderated a panel discussion “Liberal Arts in the 21st Century” as part of Presidents Ruscio’s inauguration and later he donated his extensive 1,500 Volume collection of 20th-century Southern writers to the Washington and Lee University Leyburn Library.