Tom Brokaw
Thomas John "Tom" Brokaw ( born February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakota) is an American journalist who the nightly news program Nightly News presenter on the NBC television network. He also hosted several TV productions and writes books and articles for magazines and newspapers.
Biography
Brokaw studied political science at the University of South Dakota and worked for several years as a newscaster for radio. After his studies he worked for several television stations, including NBC from 1973 to 1976 as a correspondent for the White House. In this role, he also reported on the Watergate scandal.
In 1987 he reported in The Arms, the Men, the Money on the Nicaraguan Contra rebels; In the same year, he led the first individual interview of a U.S. journalist with Mikhail Gorbachev. Likewise, for the first time was for a U.S. citizen his interview with Vladimir Putin in 2000. 1989 he reported on the fall of the Berlin Wall, in the 1990s he reported awards of Albania from the Kosovo conflict.
In 2004, after the presidential elections, Brokaw retired from his post as anchorman of NBC. On 1 December 2004 Brokaw moderated the last time the NBC Nightly News. In his farewell moderation he said among other things, in a trembling voice: " It's not the issues that cause problems. There are the answers ... " was succeeded, as already announced two years earlier, on 2 December 2004, the NBC journalist Brian Williams. Brokaw took over after the death of Tim Russert as acting Chair of the program Meet the Press in the U.S. election of 2008.
Brokaw has won numerous awards and prizes, including the Peabody Award from the University of Georgia, seven Emmy Awards and the American Legion Award from the Veterans Association and is also a carrier of six honorary doctorates from American universities. He is married to the former Miss South Dakota and author Meredith Brokaw since 1962.
Writings
- The Greatest Generation. Neuaufl. Random House, New York 2004, ISBN 1-4000-6314-0.
- An Album of Memories. Personal Histories from the greatest generation. Random House, New York 2001, ISBN 0-375-50581-4.
- A Long Way From Home. Growing Up in the American Heartland in the Forties and Fifties. Random House, New York 2003, ISBN 0-375-75935-2.