11:31 AM PST 1/22/2021
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Alex Weprin
Brokaw retired as an anchor for ‘NBC Nightly News’ in 2004, but continued to work for the network as a political analyst and on documentary programming.
After 55 years on the network, Tom Brokaw is retiring from NBC News.
Brokaw, who anchored NBC Nightly News from 1983 to 2004, he worked as a political analyst and collaborator on NBC News programming after leaving the post of the network’s main nightly news.
“During one of the most complex and consequent eras in American history, a new generation of NBC News journalists, producers and technicians is providing America with timely, insightful and extremely important information, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I couldn’t be more proud of them, ”said Brokaw in a statement.
Brokaw joined the NBC News Los Angeles office in 1966 (in 2014, NBC renamed the LA office in his honor), moving to NBC’s DC office in 1973 as his White House correspondent. He became the co-anchor of Today in 1976 before taking over Nightly News.
In 2018, Brokaw was accused of sexual harassment by former NBC anchor Linda Vester, who said he made an unwelcome advance in the early 1990s. Brokaw vehemently denied the allegations and wrote that he was “ambushed and chased” for coverage.
Winner of the Emmy Awards, Peabody, Dupont and Edward R. Murrow and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Brokaw was the only American TV correspondent to report from Berlin when the Berlin Wall fell and the first US reporter to interview Mikhail Gorbachev. He also wrote the nonfiction book The Greatest Generation in 1998, coining the phrase that became synonymous with those who fought in World War II.