Brokaw, Tom

Brokaw, Tom

▪ American television journalist and author
in full  Thomas John Brokaw 
born Feb. 6, 1940, Webster, S.D., U.S.

      American television journalist and author, best known for anchoring the NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004.

      Brokaw graduated from the University of South Dakota with a B.A. in political science in 1962. He worked as news editor for a television station in Omaha, Neb., before leaving in 1965 to anchor the late evening news for a television station in Atlanta, reporting on the civil rights movement. He joined NBC (National Broadcasting Co., Inc.) in 1966, becoming an anchorman at KNBC-TV in Los Angeles and then a news correspondent based in Washington, D.C., where he developed an impressive résumé. Brokaw served as NBC's White House correspondent during the Watergate Scandal and worked on the floor of the Democratic and Republican national conventions in 1976. From 1976 to 1982 he served as a host of NBC's popular morning program Today.

      In 1982 NBC selected Brokaw to coanchor the Nightly News with Roger Mudd. After a year, network executives made Brokaw the sole anchor of the show. He was in competition with news anchors Dan Rather at CBS and Peter Jennings at ABC, and for the next two decades the three anchors represented the faces of their respective news networks. Brokaw won a devoted following with his professional manner, quiet sense of humour, and down-to-earth delivery. As anchor of the Nightly News, he covered such major historic events as the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989), the Persian Gulf War (1990–91), and the 60th anniversary of D-Day and the Normandy Invasion (2004). He also hosted several in-depth documentaries exploring such current issues as disease, social class, global warming, and the Iraq War. After retiring from the Nightly News in 2004, he continued to contribute reports to several NBC news programs. In 2008 Brokaw became the moderator of NBC's long-running political commentary program Meet the Press after the death of host Tim Russert (Russert, Tim).

      Brokaw wrote several books on American history and culture, including The Greatest Generation (1998), The Greatest Generation Speaks (1999), Long Way from Home (2002), and BOOM! Voices of the Sixties (2007).

Chelsey Parrott-Sheffer
 

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