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Brian Williams

Brian Williams
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Williams in 2011
Born Brian Douglas Williams
(1959-05-05) May 5, 1959 (age 57)
Ridgewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality American
Alma mater George Washington University (no degree)
The Catholic University of America (no degree)
Years active 1981–present
Employer NBCUniversal, Comcast
Television NBC News reporter (1993–2004)
NBC Nightly News weekend anchor (1993–1999)
NBC Nightly News anchor (2004–2015)
MSNBC anchor (2015–present)
Spouse(s) Jane Gillan Stoddard (1986–present)
Children Allison
Douglas
Parents
  • Gordon Lewis Williams (father)
  • Dorothy May Pampei (mother)
Awards 12 News and Documentary Emmy Awards
George Polk Award
duPont-Columbia University Award
Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism

Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is an American journalist at NBC News, currently serving as chief anchor on the cable network MSNBC and host of the network's nightly wrap-up program, The 11th Hour with Brian Williams. Williams is best known for his ten years as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network. Six months after Williams joined the program in December 2004, NBC News was awarded the Peabody Award for its coverage of the Hurricane Katrina story. In February 2015, Williams was suspended for six months, and eventually fired from the Nightly News for "misrepresent[ing] events which occurred while he was covering the Iraq War in 2003."

Born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Williams was raised in a "boisterous" Irish Catholic home. He is the son of Dorothy May (née Pampel) and Gordon Lewis Williams, who was an executive vice president of the National Retail Merchants Association, in New York. His mother was an amateur stage actress. Williams is the youngest of four siblings. He lived in Elmira, New York for nine years before moving to Middletown, New Jersey, when he was in junior high school.

Williams graduated from Mater Dei High School, a Roman Catholic high school in the New Monmouth section of Middletown. While in high school, he was a volunteer firefighter for three years at the Middletown Township Fire Department. Also while in high school, he was the Editorial Editor for the school newspaper. He suffered an accident during a football game which left him with a crooked nose. His first job was as a busboy at Perkins Pancake House.


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