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Brian Williams Biography
Brian Williams born “Brian Douglas Williams” is an American journalist at NBC News. He currently anchors on the cable network MSNBC. Additionally, he works as a host of the network’s nightly program, The 11th Hour with Brian Williams. Williams is well known for his ten years as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News. NBC Nightly News is the evening news program of the NBC television network.
Brian Williams Age
He was born in Ridgewood, New Jersey on 5th of May in 1959. He is 59years old as of 2018.
Brian Williams Family
He was raised in a Roman Catholic home, of largely Irish descent. He was born to Dorothy May and Gordon Lewis Williams. Gordon Lewis Williams was an executive vice president of the National Retail Merchants Association, in New York. His mother was an amateur stage actress. He was born the youngest of four siblings.
Brian Williams Wife
He married Jane Stoddard Williams on June 7, 1986. Jane is also a host and executive producer of the weekly radio program Bloomberg EDU. She as well as a deep interest in education and actively promoting education working towards improving.
Brian Williams Children
The pair has two grown children Allison Williams and Douglas Williams and Allison Williams is an actress and musician. The family resides in New Canaan, Connecticut.
Brian Williams Education
He got enrolled and later graduated from a Roman Catholic High School in Middletown, Mater Dei High School. Brian was Editorial Editor for the school newspaper while he was studying in High School.
He then joined the Brookdale Community College, The Catholic University of America and then to The George Washington University. William later did his internship with the administration of President Jimmy Carter. He did not graduate from college.
Brian Williams Career
He started off his career working at KOAM-TV in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1981. Brian then worked in Philadelphia for WCAU. He later joined NBC News in 1993 where he worked as chief White House correspondent. He also worked here as an anchor for Weekend Nightly News.
After his three years of his work, Brian Williams anchored and as well as the managing editor of The News with Chris Jansing, on MSNBC and CNBC in 1996. He as well made his appearance in shows like The Daily Show, 30 Rock and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.
Brian Williams PhotographHe won a total of 12 Emmy Award in his American primetime and daytime entertainment programming in various categories. Brian has won The Edward Murrow Award 11 times in his career.
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He started working as an anchor of NBC Nightly News on December 2, 2004. H got this spot after Tom Brokaw retired. His first year was marked by coverage of two disasters: the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. His and NBC’s Katrina coverage was widely praised, and Williams, in particular, was applauded “for venting his anger and frustration over the government’s failure to act quickly to help the victims.”
He was awarded the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism by Arizona State University in 2009. He received 12 News & Documentary Emmy Awards. For “outstanding” work as anchor and managing editor of the Nightly News, Since he began anchoring the Nightly News.
He received a 2012 Emmy for his interview program Rock Center and a 2013 Emmy for being one of the executive producers and editors of a documentary on the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. He as well shared a 2014 Emmy awarded for an NBC News Special on the Boston Marathon bombing.
He was later suspended for six months from the broadcast for misrepresenting his experience in the 2003 invasion of Iraq in 2015. At the time, his salary was $10 million a year, as well as having a with a five-year contract signed in December 2014.
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He returned to the air as MSNBC’s chief anchor in September 2015, Williams. News events that Williams has since covered for MSNBC include Pope Francis’s trip to the United States; the Umpqua Community College shooting; and terrorist attacks in Paris, San Bernardino, Belgium, and Nice.
In January 2016, He as well also added the role of chief elections anchor for MSNBC. Subsequently, he debuted in the new role during coverage of the 2016 Iowa caucuses. As part of his chief anchor duties, Williams currently anchors a nightly news and politics wrap-up show. The show is titled The 11th Hour with Brian Williams.
The 11th Hour with Brian Williams is a one-hour nightly news and politics television program being aired weeknights at 11:00 pm ET on MSNBC. The program premiered on September 6, 2016, as the network’s flagship evening newscast. It is hosted by Brian Williams, the network’s chief anchor and former host of NBC Nightly News.
Brian Williams Salary – Brian Williams Net Worth
He has an estimated salary of close to $10 million per year, down from his former salary at NBC when he made up to $15 million annually. His estimated net worth is $40 million dollars.
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Williams played 2 seasons at the University of Arizona before being drafted in the first round of the 1991 NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic. After bouncing around the league, he was signed by the Bulls for the last 9 games of the 1996-97 season, becoming an important bench piece as they won their 5th NBA championship. Williams was then traded to Detroit, where he averaged career highs of 16.2 ppg and 8.9. It was during this period that he changed his name to Bison Dele in order to honor his Cherokee heritage.
Dele, who was known for his eccentric behavior, suddenly retired from the NBA in an odd fashion. He retired before the start of the 1999–2000 season at age 30. This was when he was still in the prime of his career. He had been the Pistons’ highest-paid player but decided to walk away from the remaining five years and US$36.45 million on his contract rather than be traded.
After retiring, Dele bought a boat that he named the Hukuna Matata, or “Good Times.” On July 6, 2002, Dele, his brother Miles Dabord, his girlfriend, Serena Karlan, and the captain of the boat set sail from Tahiti.
On July 20, Dabord bought the boat into Tahiti. He was alone, no one else on the boat was ever seen again. Dabord was caught on September 5 in Arizona when police discovered that he had bought $152,000 worth of gold by using his brother’s name and passport as his identification and forging his signature. 2 days earlier, the Hukuna Matata was found with its nameplate removed and some possible bullet holes patched.
That same day, Dabord called his mother, telling her that he would never hurt Bison and that he could not survive life in prison. The FBI and French authorities eventually concluded that Dele, Karlan and the captain were probably killed and then thrown overboard, or forced to walk off the boat into the ocean, by Dabord. Given that the bodies were likely dumped in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it would be highly unlikely that the three would ever be found.
Investigators were never able to properly question Dabord though, because he intentionally overdosed on insulin, falling into a coma, and eventually dying in a California hospital on September 27, 2002.
Brian Williams Suspended – Brian Williams Controversy
NBC News had said to have suspended its chief anchor and managing editor Brian Williams immediately for six months without pay, forgoing the option of firing the embattled newsman for now due to his popularity and past work at the network.
“As I’m sure you understand, this was a very hard decision,” wrote NBC News President Deborah Turness in a memo distributed to staff members late Tuesday. “Certainly there will be those who disagree. But we believe this suspension is the appropriate and proportionate action.”
The scandal erupted when Williams attended a New York Rangers game with a soldier who helped guard him and other American soldiers while a convoy of military helicopters they were flying on was forced to land on a desert in Iraq in 2003.
He said the helicopter he was on had been hit by enemy fire and forced down. Veterans from the convoy challenged Williams’ story which he has repeated in the past on Facebook. And the anchorman recanted the story on air Wednesday after Stars and Stripes wrote a story about their online exchange and interviewed Williams and the veterans.
Other news reports began emerging after the story, questioning other Williams statements. Williams has said he saw a body floating in front of his hotel in the French Quarter of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. The New Orleans Advocate pointed out last week that the Quarter was mostly dry and quoted an official questioning his story.
Brian Williams Body Measurements
He stands at a height of an inch taller than 6 feet 185 cm and weighs 81 kg (179 pounds). He has blue eyes and light brown hair.
