NBC Washington anchor Pat Lawson Muse announces retirement after 40 years – WTOP News

WTOP associate NBC Washington introduced tenured anchor Pat Lawson Muse can be retiring on the finish of the month.

On Friday, Lawson Muse spoke on air saying, “Once I walked by way of the doorways of (NBC4) as a scholar researcher again in 1977, I may by no means have imagined that years later, I’d return as a normal task reporter and anchor, after which make this my dwelling for greater than 4 many years.”

Lawson Muse says she’s excited to maneuver on to the subsequent season of her life and profession.

All through her profession, Lawson Muse, an award-winning journalist, has served the DMV area, protecting the information and native occasions. Within the 70s, she was the afternoon drive-time anchor for WTOP. In 1982, alongside co-anchor Barbara Harrison, she made historical past as a part of the primary all-female native information crew within the nation.

Anchors Doug Kammerer and Erika Gonzalez additionally expressed phrases of gratitude upon listening to the information, saying they’ll deeply miss Lawson Muse after she leaves.

“And it has certainly been an honor. I’m so grateful to you, our viewers, and to our group companions … And I wish to thanks from the underside of my coronary heart, to your love and your assist, and for welcoming me into your properties and your hearts for thus a few years. And whereas I’ll be signing off right here, I would like you to know that I’ll nonetheless be round serving and dealing with a lot of you within the years to come back,” Lawson Muse stated.

Her final broadcast will probably be on March 24.

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