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×Most famous for having anchored NBC’s “Nightly News” broadcast from 1982 until 2004, Tom Brokaw covered some of the world’s biggest news stories, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the September 11, 2001 attacks. He hosted the number one evening news program in 1996, according to Nielsen ratings, which continued through his last broadcast on December 1, 2004.
Despite his retirement from the evening news, Brokaw continued to provide special reports on a variety of diverse topics such as literacy, affirmative action, drunk driving, corporate scandals, immigration policies, and race.
Brokaw has won numerous awards for his reporting, but is also an award-winning documentary reporter. Such documentaries include:
He is also an author whose books include
Prior to anchoring NBC’s “Nightly News,” Brokaw was a host of the Today Show (1976-1981) and a White House correspondent (1973-1976). His career in broadcast journalism began in 1965 at KTIV in Sioux City, Iowa after completing his B.A. in political science from University of South Dakota.