Tom Griffith

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Tom Griffith anchors television newscasts at New Hampshire's influential WMUR-TV As a professional broadcaster for the past 30 years, the last 20 years at WMUR-TV, Griffith has been at the anchor desk longer than anyone in WMUR-TV history.

Griffith has interviewed countless presidents and pesidential candidates over the years and is remembered for asking Gov. Bill Clinton in 1992 whether he had ever had an extra-marital affair. It was a question that elevated the debate in newsrooms nationwide about tabloid journalism's place in the mainstream press.

Griffith later played himself, the New Hampshire newscaster, in the movie "Primary Colors" starring John Travolta in 1998.

Since his arrival in New Hampshire 1988, WMUR News 9 newscasts have won countless awards for spot news, overall coverage, and election coverage by the New Hampshire Associated Press. He has moderated dozens of political debates and forums including "The Republicans: A New Hampshire Town Meeting" at Dartmouth College in 1999 and the New Hampshire Primary presidential debates in 2003 with Peter Jennings and Brit Hume.

Griffith has also provided analysis of the New Hampshire Primary on CNN, C-SPAN and FOX.

Griffith has worked for six broadcast companies in five states. Currently, he co-anchors WMUR News 9 at 6 p.m. and WMUR News 9 Tonight. He also co-hosts New Hampshire Chronicle week nights at 7:30 p.m.

From 1983 to 1986,Griffith hosted "Discover Columbus" , a magazine program featuring in part the animals of Jack Hanna, Director of the Columbus Zoo. Hanna's antics on the program gained national attention and helped launch his television career.

His coverage of military operations in Great Britain in 1986 won him the Associated Press award for the best series reporting in Ohio. In 1991, a planned trip to the Persian Gulf with the New Hampshire National Guard was cut short by the start of the Gulf War.

A native of Pittsburgh, Pa. Griffith graduated from Upper St. Clair High School and the University of Delaware.

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