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Brian Williams

Williams at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
Born May 5, 1959 (1959-05-05) (age 49)
Elmira, New York
Occupation News Anchor and Managing Editor of NBC Nightly News
Spouse Jane Stoddard Williams[1]
Ethnicity Irish
Religious belief(s) Roman Catholicism
Salary $10 million[2]
Notable credit(s) NBC News reporter
(1993–present)
NBC Nightly News anchor (2004–present)
Official website
This article is about the American journalist. For other uses, see Brian Williams (disambiguation).

Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is the seventh anchor and managing editor[1] of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network. Williams replaced Tom Brokaw on December 2, 2004. Previously, Williams was the network's chief White House correspondent and host of The News with Brian Williams on CNBC and MSNBC. In 2007, Williams was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World[3]. He lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with his wife, Jane Stoddard Williams, one of their two children, and two dogs.

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[edit] Early life

Williams was raised in a middle class Irish Catholic home. In his childhood his family moved from his birth place, Elmira, New York[4], to Middletown, New Jersey. He graduated from Mater Dei High School, a Roman Catholic high school in the New Monmouth section of Middletown.[5] While in high school, he was a volunteer firefighter for three years at the Middletown Township (New Jersey) Fire Department. After high school, he attended Brookdale Community College, before transferring to George Washington University, and then to The Catholic University of America.[6] He did not graduate, instead taking an internship with the administration of President Jimmy Carter. He now calls leaving college one of his "great regrets."[7] In 2004, he returned to The Catholic University of America and gave the commencement address, received an honorary doctorate as he delivered the keynote address at Providence College's May 19, 2002 commencement, and in 2008 received an honorary Doctor of Journalism degree from The Ohio State University.

[edit] Early career

After working in the lobbying arm of the National Association of Broadcasters, Williams began his broadcasting career at KOAM-TV in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1981. A year later he moved back to Washington, D.C. and worked at WTTG-TV as general assignment correspondent. He replaced Maury Povich as host of locally produced Washington, D.C. chat show Panorama in 1985.

In 1985, Williams was hired by CBS and worked as New Jersey correspondent for its Philadelphia affiliate, WCAU-TV. In 1987, Williams was promoted to WCBS-TV in New York, where he soon began anchoring its noon news. He won his first Emmy for his reporting of the October 1987 stock market collapse. In 1993, Williams was hired by NBC News to anchor the weekend editions of Nightly News, and in 1994 became the network's chief White House correspondent. In 1996, he began an eight-year run as lead anchor of The News with Brian Williams on MSNBC and CNBC. Then in 2004, he succeeded Tom Brokaw in his current role as the anchor of NBC News’s flagship program Nightly News.

[edit] Salary history

2004 - In December 2004, Williams succeeded Tom Brokaw as anchor of NBC Nightly News. His yearly salary is reported to be $8,000,000. [8]
2006 - In October 2006, Williams' yearly salary was reportedly not less than $10,000,000, according to NBC News President Steve Capus, then chief of NBC News.[2]

[edit] Appearances

He frequently appears on The Daily Show as a celebrity guest interviewed by Jon Stewart. A running gag involving his head being projected on a screen behind Stewart was used several times after The Daily Show moved to a new set in April 2007. He also appears often on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

He also appeared on Saturday Night Live on September 30, 2006 to co-anchor the Weekend Update segment with Amy Poehler, but is told by Poehler that Seth Meyers will be co-anchoring the segment. On August 26, 2007 he appeared live with Poehler and Meyers as guest monologist at ASSSSCAT 3000, a weekly show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre hosted by the Upright Citizens Brigade, of which Poehler is a founder.

Williams hosted the November 3, 2007 episode of Saturday Night Live, making him the first national news anchor to host the show. He hosted after a hectic week of moderating the Democratic presidential debate at Drexel University. After moderating the debate which ended at 11PM, he took a ride back to New York to rehearse the show until 6AM Wednesday.[9] On SNL, he offered a monologue where he poked fun at himself being unable to break out of the anchor mode, and played the roles of a NYC fireman on a local talk show speaking about fire safety, an actor who just discovered he lost his job as he is playing his final role, an unenthusiastic winner of 15 million dollars, the debate moderator who confirms that the "media" has already chosen Hillary Clinton as its winner, and as himself preparing a new James Bond-like intro to NBC Nightly News.

At the 2007 Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner, Williams was pulled up on stage by improv comedians Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood and made sound effects as the two comedians performed a skit.

In 2007, he agreed to participate in an award and broadcast by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society for citizen awards. The Above & Beyond Citizen Honors will be broadcast in March 2008. [10]

On May 19, 2007, Williams delivered the keynote speech at the New Orleans Arena for the Tulane University Class of 2007 Commencement. He previously was awarded the university's highest award, the Tulane President's Medal, on May 31, 2006.

Williams received an honorary Doctorate degree in Journalism and served as the keynote speaker at the Spring Commencement at The Ohio State University on June 8, 2008.

On June 18, 2008, Williams gave a eulogy at Tim Russert's memorial at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He ended his speech by saying "our maker" has brought Russert back home.

Along with Bob Costas, he supports the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation where he is a honorary board member.[11]

Nancy Donnelly, an English teacher in northeastern Ohio, created and maintains the website The Brian Williams Tie Report Archive, which does a humorous daily analysis of Williams' necktie choices for the evening's broadcast of the Nightly News. [12]

[edit] Notable coverage

[edit] Career timeline

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Brian Williams - Nightly News with Brian Williams - MSNBC.com
  2. ^ a b Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com - Studio Briefing - 23 October 2006
  3. ^ Brian Williams - The TIME 100 - TIME
  4. ^ "Brian Williams - MSNBC.com", MSNBC, March 18, 2003. Accessed November 6, 2008.
  5. ^ Brian Williams, NOPAC Talent. Accessed October 14, 2007. "Graduated from Mater Dei, a Roman Catholic High School in New Monmouth, NJ."
  6. ^ Strauss, Robert. "IN PERSON; The Life Of Brian, Annotated", The New York Times, October 27, 2002. Accessed October 14, 2007.
  7. ^ Remarks by Brian Williams. Tulane University Commencement: May 19, 2007
  8. ^ "Biography for Brian Williams (III)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-12-11.
  9. ^ Gough, Paul J.. "Williams still on desk at 'SNL'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved on 2007-12-11.
  10. ^ "The Congressional Medal of Honor Society Announces Above & Beyond Citizen Honors". Findlaw-PR Newswire. Retrieved on 2007-12-13.
  11. ^ [1]
  12. ^ "Brian Williams Tie Report Archives". Retrieved on 2008-11-26.

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