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Tom Brokaw
Thomas John Brokaw is an American author and retired network television journalist. He first served as the co-anchor of The Today Show from 1976 to 1981 with Jane Pauley, then as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982–2004). In the previous decade he served as a weekend anchor for the program from 1973 to 1976. He is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC…
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culture · American broadcast journalist and author (born 1940) · journalist · news presenter · writer · television journalist · opinion journalist · program host · also Tom Brokaw, Brokaw
Born 6 February 1940 · Q919527
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2026· 1 entry
2021· 2 entries
NBC announced Brokaw would retire after 55 years at the network, one of only two news anchors in the world who have spent the longest time on the same news network, along with Ecuadorian news anchor Alfonso Espinosa de l
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NBC announced that Brokaw would retire after 55 years at the network, one of the longest standing anchors in the world at the same news network
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2019· 1 entry
Brokaw wrote a book entitled The Fall of Richard Nixon: A Reporter Remembers Watergate, about his experiences working as a reporter and member of the White House press corps
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2018· 1 entry
Brokaw was accused of having made unwanted sexual advances toward two women in the 1990s
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2017· 1 entry
Brokaw wrote of having been offered – and having promptly turned down – the press secretary position in the Nixon White House in 1969
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2016· 1 entry
Brokaw gave one of the eulogies for former First Lady Nancy Reagan at her funeral
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2014· 2 entries
Brokaw announced that his cancer is in remission
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Barack Obama (2014).
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Brokaw was hospitalized after appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe
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2011· 2 entries
Awarded Freedom Award (2011).
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Brokaw began hosting The Boys in the Hall, a baseball documentary series for Fox Sports Net
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2010· 1 entry
Was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Iowa, and later donated his papers to its library
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2008· 2 entries
When NBC interrupted its regular programming to announce the sudden death of NBC News Washington Bureau Chief and Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert, Brokaw served as the announcer
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Testified before the Commission on Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism about the anthrax attacks, publicly discussing his experiences for the first time in a detailed, day-by-day acco
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2006· 3 entries
Awarded Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award (2006).
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Awarded Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2006).
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Delivered one of the eulogies during the state funeral of former President Gerald R
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2002· 1 entry
NBC announced that Brokaw would retire as anchor of the NBC Nightly News following the 2004 Presidential election, to be succeeded by Brian Williams
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2001· 1 entry
Brokaw joined Katie Couric and Matt Lauer around 9:30 a
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1996· 1 entry
Brokaw made the following statement about Richard Jewell's suspected involvement in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing, after which Jewell sued NBC News:
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1993· 1 entry
On the first broadcast of Late Show with David Letterman on CBS, in response to David Letterman's monologue containing jokes about NBC, Brokaw walked on stage in a surprise appearance (accompanied by Paul Shaffer and the
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1989· 2 entries
Was the first English-language broadcast journalist to report the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Brokaw and his wife spend considerable time at their ranch near Livingston, Montana, which they bought in 1989.
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1982· 1 entry
Brokaw began co-anchoring NBC Nightly News from New York with Roger Mudd in Washington, succeeding John Chancellor
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1976· 1 entry
And remained in the job until 1981, when he was succeeded by Bryant Gumbel
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1973· 1 entry
NBC made Brokaw White House correspondent, covering the Watergate scandal, and anchor of the Saturday editions of Nightly News
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1966· 1 entry
Joined NBC News, reporting from Los Angeles and anchoring the 11:00 p
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1962· 1 entry
With a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science
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1940· 1 entry
Born 1940-02-06.
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