Dennis Murphy is an American television journalist, correspondent, and presenter best known for his long-running work on NBC. He attended Georgetown Preparatory School in Maryland and, later, studied at Williams College in Massachusetts. Murphy began his journalism career in local stations in Seattle and Houston before NBC News hired him in 1982, starting him at the network’s Burbank bureau. 

His early NBC years took him through Central America during the 1980s, covering the Grenada invasion, civil war in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and the rise of South American drug cartels. He later served as chief foreign correspondent for Today out of NBC’s London bureau, reporting from the fall of the Berlin Wall and across Eastern Europe and the Middle East. 

Since 1994, Murphy has reported for Dateline NBC, where he remains a correspondent today. His true-crime coverage includes the Casey Anthony trial, the Amanda Knox case, and the Gianni Versace shooting. He has also covered the royal wedding of Kate Middleton and reported on Hurricane Katrina, for which he won a duPont-Columbia Award.