Dennis Murphy Biography
Dennis Murphy is an American television journalist. He is a winner of four national Emmys for excellence in news reporting. Murphy is known for regular contributions to NBC News, NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC, The Today Show, and NBC News at Sunrise.
Dennis Murphy Age|Birthday
Murphy was born in 1946. Therefore, he is 75 years old as of 2022. However, the American journalist’s exact date and month of birth details are not publicly available thus it is not known when he celebrates his birthday.
Dennis Murphy Height |Weight
Murphy’s height is 5 feet 7 inches (approximately 170 centimeters). However, Dennis’s other body measurements are currently unavailable in the public domain.
Dennis Murphy Family
Murphy’s parents are Owen (father) and Marion Herson (mother). However, the journalist has not disclosed if he has any siblings or not.
Dennis Murphy Wife
Murphy was married to Marilyn Sibyl Holmer in 1977. Additionally, the couple had three children together. Moreover, their son was named George Junior, and their daughter was named Ellen. However, the duo’s children died when they were young. Moreover, the couple was married for nine years.
Dennis Murphy Education
The journalist graduated from the Georgetown Preparatory School in 1965. Additionally, Murphy graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1969.
Dennis Murphy Career
The American television journalist has covered stories for NBC News from more than 50 countries. In addition, as a regular contributor to NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and Today, Dennis’s assignments have given him a front-row seat for some of the biggest stories of the last decades. Additionally, the journalist has covered wars in the Persian Gulf and Central America to the collapse of the Soviet Empire and the Berlin Wall. Moreover, most recently, Murphy has covered the war on terror in Afghanistan.
Early career
Murphy was a reporter for KING-TV, the NBC affiliate in Seattle, Washington prior to joining NBC News. Moreover, Dennis began his career as a desk assistant at WCBS-TV in New York. Furthermore, the journalist also worked for several years as an assignment editor, producer, and reporter at KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas.
NBC News
Murphy’s career in NBC News began as a correspondent in 1982 at the Burbank bureau. Moreover, Dennis was assigned to Miami the following year where he traveled extensively throughout South and Central America. Additionally, the invasion of Grenada, civil war in Nicaragua and El Salvador, a deadly volcanic eruption in Columba, and drug lords were all part of his watch in the 1980s. Furthermore, Murphy covered the Democratic presidential primaries in 1988. Moreover, he was NBC’s traveling correspondent on the Bush campaign.
Dateline NBC
The journalist has been a correspondent with Dateline NBC since 1994. Murphy received an Edward R. Murrow Award for a report on Hurricane Floyd and a Clarion award for a spot news story on the Oklahoma City bombing in 2000. Moreover, in 1999, Dennis was awarded an Emmy Award, Clarion Award, Harry Chapin Media Award, and a National Headliner Award for Children of the Harvest. Additionally, Dennis received a Clarion Award for his work on ‘A Few Good Men, the story of several men from one marine unit who fought together in Vietnam. Moreover, he received a National Association of Black Journalists Award for International Reporting. Furthermore, in 1996, the journalist was honored with two Emmys for his work on Dateline. Additionally, he was honored with an American Bar Association certificate of merit for an hour-long Dateline program on the anatomy of a civil trial.
NBC Foreign correspondent
Murphy was posted in NBC’s London bureau as a chief foreign correspondent for Today where his stories took him literally around the world prior to Dateline. He traveled to Japan, Thailand, India, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Moreover, Murphy’s major assignments included the revolutions of Eastern Europe in 1989, German unification, the last days of Margaret Thatcher, and funerals of the Ayatollah and Emporer Hirohito. Moreover, he covered the plight of the Kurds in Iraq following the Gulf War. In addition, he also reported in the early 1990s from hot spots such as Baghdad, Bosnia, and Mogadishu. Furthermore, Denis won his first Emmy for a report on the revolution in Romania in 1989.
Dennis Murphy’s Net Worth
Murphy’s net worth is $4 million.
