Tom Brokaw

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Tom Brokaw

Thomas John "Tom" Brokaw (born February 6, 1940 in Webster , South Dakota ) is an American journalist who moderated the nightly news program Nightly News for the television station NBC . He also moderates several TV productions and writes books and articles for newspapers and magazines.

Life

Brokaw studied political science at the University of South Dakota and worked for several years as a news anchor for the radio . After graduating, he worked for various television stations, including from 1973 to 1976 as NBC correspondent for the White House . In this capacity he also reported on the Watergate affair .

In 1987 he reported in The Arms, the Men, the Money on the Nicaraguan Contra rebels; In the same year he conducted the first individual interview of a US journalist with Mikhail Gorbachev . His interview with Vladimir Putin was also the first for an American in 2000. In 1989 he reported on the fall of the Berlin Wall , and in the 1990s he reported on the Kosovo conflict from Albania .

In 2004, after the presidential election, Brokaw retired from his post as NBC anchorman . On December 1, 2004, Brokaw hosted the NBC Nightly News for the last time . In his farewell moderation he said, among other things, in a shaky voice: “It is not the questions that cause problems. It's the answers ... ”As announced two years earlier, the successor was NBC journalist Brian Williams on December 2, 2004 . After the death of Tim Russert , Brokaw took over the moderation of the program Meet the Press in the US election year 2008 .

Brokaw has won numerous awards and prizes, including the University of Georgia Peabody Award , seven Emmy Awards, and the American Legion Award from the Veterans Association, and has received six honorary doctorates from US universities. In 2005 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2014 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom . He has been married to former Miss South Dakota and author Meredith Brokaw since 1962 .

Fonts

  • The Greatest Generation . New edition 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NBC: Brokaw Gets "Meet the Press" Through Election on abcnews.go.com
personal data
SURNAME Brokaw, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brokaw, Thomas John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Webster , South Dakota , United States