Brian Williams is an award winning television anchor and the managing editor of ‘NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams’
Brian Williams
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May 5, 1959
Biography
Personal Details
- Birthday: May 5, 1959
- Nationality: American
- Famous: George Washington University, Media Personalities, Journalists, Editors
- City/State: New Jersey
- Spouses: Jane Stoddard Williams (m. 1986)
- Childrens: Allison Williams
- Universities:
- George Washington University
- Mater Dei High School
- Brookdale Community College
- George Washington UniversityThe Catholic University of America
Brian Williams born at
Ridgewood, New Jersey, U.S.
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Birth Place
Williams has been married to Jane Gillan Stoddard since 1986. They have two children. His daughter Allison Williams is an actress and musician.
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Personal Life
Brian Williams was born in New Jersey to Gordon Williams and his wife Dorothy. His father was an executive vice president of the National Retail Merchants Association, New York. He has two brothers and one sister.
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Childhood & Early Life
He attended the Mater Dei High School, New Jersey. As a high school student, he volunteered as a firefighter with the local fire department for three years.
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He went to Brookdale Community College after high school. Later he attended The Catholic University of America and The George Washington University. But, he left college mid-term and did not graduate.
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After dropping out of college, he worked in the White House as an intern during the administration of President Jimmy Carter. Later he worked as assistant administrator of the political action committee of the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington.
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Career
His broadcasting career began in 1981 when he got a job with KOAM-TV in Pittsburg. After that he worked at various local stations in Philadelphia and New York before being appointed by the CBS station.
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In 1993, he left CBS and joined NBC News as a correspondent. The very next year he became NBC’s chief White House correspondent. He gained considerable visibility in the public eye when he anchored the show ‘The News with Brian Williams’ aired on MSNBC.
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He took over as the anchor of the ‘Nightly News’, the flagship daily evening news program on NBC in 2004 when the previous anchor Tom Brokaw retired. This marked a very significant point in his career.
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Williams was chosen to host NBC’s new weekly newsmagazine broadcast ‘Rock Center with Brian Williams’ that went on air in October 2011.
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He is most popular as the anchor of the ‘NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams’, the most watched news program in the U.S. He was especially appreciated for his coverage of the Asian Tsunami (2004) and live spot reporting during Hurricane Katrina (2005) which won him awards and accolades from industry experts.
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Major Works
He is the host of ‘Rock Center with Brian Williams’, a weekly newsmagazine broadcast by NBC that is also shown on MSNBC. This is NBC’s first prime time newsmagazine launch in nearly two decades. The first episode was broadcast in October 2011.
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