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Tom Brokaw (born February 6, 1940) is a television journalist and the anchorman and managing editor of the NBC News program NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. NBC Nightly News is the most watched cable or broadcast newscast in America. Brokaw also hosts, writes and moderates special programs on a wide range of topics, and has received many awards and honors. He has been married to Meredith Lynn Auld (a former Miss South Dakota and author) since 1962.
Besides writing for television, Brokaw also writes for periodicals and books. He serves on the Howard University School of Communications Board of Visitors and on the boards of trustees of the University of South Dakota, the Norton Simon Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History.
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Born in Webster, South Dakota, Brokaw studied political science and worked as a radio reporter at the University of South Dakota from 1958 to 1962. His journalism career began at KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska.
In 1965 he became an editor and anchorman of the late-evening news on WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia. The following year he joined NBC News, reporting from California and anchoring for KNBC in Los Angeles. From 1973-1976 he was a NBC News White House correspondent, covering the Watergate scandal. During this time, he was asked by the higher-rated CBS News to join it after CBS's management had decided its reporter, Dan Rather, was too anti-Nixon. The switch never happened after word of it was leaked to the press.
In 1976 Brokaw became NBC News' Today Show host. He was also the floor reporter for the two major parties' presidential nominating conventions. On September 5, 1983 he became the anchor of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.
In 1987 he wrote The Arms, the Men, the Money, investigating Contra rebels. That same year he conducted the first one-on-one American TV interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, and won an A.I.duPont-Columbia University Award. He also moderated the debates among all declared presidential candidates of both parties.
In 1989 he reported the collapse of the Berlin Wall. From 1992-1993 he anchored The Brokaw Report series of prime-time "critical issues" specials. He was also host, with Katie Couric, of a prime-time newsmagazine called Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric. The show aired from 1993-1994.
In 1995 Brokaw reported from the site of the Oklahoma City bombing. The following year he reported from the scene of the TWA flight 800 tragedy. In 1997 Interviews Charlie Trie and Johnny Chung, key figures in the campaign finance abuse scandal.
In 1999 Brokaw conducted the first North American TV interview with Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, in Moscow. He also traveled to Tirana, Albania during NATO airstrikes in Yugoslavia.
In 2000 he conducted the first American TV interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Moscow. He was also Master of Ceremonies at the opening of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In 2002, Brokaw announced his intention to retire from NBC after the 2004 Presidential election. NBC has announced that Brian Williams will replace Brokaw as the anchor of NBC Nightly News on December 1, 2004. NBC announced that Brokaw will remain with the network in a part-time capacity through 2014 serving as an analyst and producing documentary programs.
Brokaw is regarded as the most popular news personality in the United States. His program has consistently been the highest-rated evening news show.
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