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Hall of Fame 1994Tom BrokawVideo |
Tom Brokaw, anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw," is equally at ease covering the convulsive changes in world capitals and monitoring the heartbeat of America in small town and inner cities of the United States. He conducted the first exclusive one-on-one interview with Mikhais Gorbachev, which won the Alfred I duPont Award. Brokaw was the only anchor on the scene the night the Berlin Wall fell. He was the first American anchor to report on human rights abuses in Tibet and to conduct an exclusive interview with the Dalai Lama.
He's anchored "Nightly News" from rooftops in Beirut, the Great Wall in China, the streets of Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm, Soweto in South Africa, Somalia, Cairo and many other exotic locations. Sole anchor of "Nightly News" since 1983, he had been anchor on NBC News' "Today" 1976-1981.
An acclaimed political reporter (Brokaw was NBC News' White House correspondent during the Watergate era), has has covered every presidential election since 1968.
In addition to the Nightly News, Brokaw also plays an active role in NBC News' prime-time specials on a wide range of topics.
Brokaw has received numerous awards for his work, including an Emmy Award for outstanding coverage of the Romanian Revolution and an Emmy for the NBC News special "China in Crises."
Brokaw joined NBC News in 1966, reporting from California and anchoring on KNBC, the NBC Television station in Los Angeles (1966-1973). In 1965 he anchored the late evening news on WBS-TV, Atlanta.
After graduating from the University of South Dakota, he began his journalism career in 1962 at KMTV in Omaha.