Brian Douglas Williams is an American journalist at MSNBC. He is the network’s chief anchor and host of its flagship weeknight news program, The 11th Hour with Brian Williams. Williams is known for his ten years as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program on NBC. In 2007, Time magazine named Williams one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was demoted to breaking news anchor for MSNBC on June 18, 2015.
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Brian Douglas Williams is an American journalist at MSNBC. He is the network’s chief anchor and host of its flagship weeknight news program, The 11th Hour with Brian Williams. Williams is known for his ten years as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program on NBC. In 2007, Time magazine named Williams one of the 100 most influential people in the world. On June 18, 2015, he was demoted to breaking news anchor for MSNBC. Williams’ coverage of Hurricane Katrina was widely praised, particularly for venting his anger and frustration over the government’s failure to act quickly to help the victims. He was awarded the Peabody Award for his coverage of the hurricane. In February 2015, Williams was suspended for six months for misrepresenting events which occurred while he was covering the Iraq War in 2003. He has been awarded 12 News & Document Emmy Awards for his work as an anchor and Managing Editor of the Nightly news. He also shared a 2014 Emmy for an NBC News Special on the Boston Marathon bombing. Williams was awarded a Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism by Arizona State University in 2009. In 2010, he received one Emmy for its coverage of a deadly series of tornadoes in Oklahoma, for which it was also awarded the duPont-Columbia University Award. In 2012, Williams also received a Emmy for being a producer of a documentary on the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and for being one of a producers and editors of a program on the Kennedy Presidential Museum and Museum.
In 2013, he won one Emmy in 2010, one in 2011, two in 2012, and one in 2013, for being the executive producer of the documentary The Rock Center at the Kennedy Library and Library of Congress. In 2014, Williams won a second Emmy for his reporting on the Oklahoma tornadoes, which it broadcast from the Rock Center. He won a third Emmy in 2013 for his report on the World Series of Poker, which was broadcast from New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Williams has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1987. He attended the Catholic University of America and George Washington University. He did not take a degree, ultimately interning with the administration of President Jimmy Carter. Williams first worked in broadcasting in 1981 at KOAM-TV in Pittsburg, Kansas. He covered news in the Washington, D. C. area at then-independent station WTTG, then worked in Philadelphia for WCAU, then owned and operated by CBS. He joined NBC News in 1993, where he anchored the national Weekend Nightley News and was chief White House correspondent. Williams also served as primary substitute anchor on The NBC nightly News with Tom Brokaw, and its weekend anchor. He became anchor of NBC night news on December 2, 2004, replacing the retiring Tom BroKaw. He lived in Elmira, New York, for nine years before moving to Middletown Township, New Jersey, when he was in junior high school.
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