page_title: Tom Brokaw
section_title: 2004-present: After Nightly News
hierarchical_section_title: Tom Brokaw / Broadcasting career / 2004-present: After Nightly News
caption_attribution_description: 061207-N-4856G-254 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - w:Tom Brokaw speaks of the events and history of the w:Attack on Pearl Harbor. Over 3,000 Pearl Harbor survivors and guest took part in a joint U.S. Navy/National Park Service ceremony commemorating the 65th Anniversary of the attack. More than 1,500 Pearl Harbor survivors, their families and friends from around the nation along with 2,000 distinguished guests and the general public took part in this annual observance.
context_page_description: Thomas John Brokaw is an American television journalist and author. He was the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years. He is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and, briefly, Meet the Press. He now serves as a special correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries for other outlets.
  Along with his competitors Peter Jennings at ABC News and Dan Rather at CBS News, Brokaw was one of the "Big Three" news anchors in the U.S. during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s. The three hosted their networks' flagship nightly news programs for over 20 years, and all three started and retired from the anchor chair with Dan Rather notably being ousted from CBS due to false reports aired on 60 Minutes II within a year of each other.
  Brokaw has also written several books on American history and society in the 20th century. He is the author of The Greatest Generation and other books and the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was awarded to him by President Barack Obama in 2014.
context_section_description: After leaving the anchor chair, Brokaw remained at NBC as Special Correspondent, providing periodic reports for Nightly News.  He served as an NBC analyst during the 2008 presidential election campaign and moderated the second presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain at Belmont University.  He reported documentaries for the Discovery Channel and the History Channel and in 2006 delivered one of the eulogies during the state funeral of former President Gerald R. Ford.
  On June 13, 2008, when NBC interrupted its regular programming to announce the sudden death of NBC News Washington Bureau Chief and Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert, Brokaw served as the announcer.  A week later, NBC announced that Brokaw would serve as host of Meet the Press on an interim basis.  He was succeeded by David Gregory in December 2008.
  Brokaw serves on the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Committee to Protect Journalists, the International Rescue Committee and the Mayo Clinic.  He is also a member of the Howard University School of Communications Board of Visitors and a trustee of the University of South Dakota, the Norton Simon Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the International Rescue Committee. He also provides the voiceover for a University of Iowa advertisement that airs on television during Iowa Hawkeyes athletic events.
  In 2011 Brokaw began hosting The Boys in the Hall, a baseball documentary series for Fox Sports Net.
  In December 2012, Brokaw starred in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's annual Christmas concert, with live audiences of 84,000. The concert, titled Home for the Holidays, was nationally televised in December 2013.
  In April 2014, a new broadcast facility opened on the Universal Studios Hollywood lot, and named in Brokaw's honor as the Brokaw News Center.  The facility houses KNBC-TV, Telemundo owned-and-operated station KVEA, and the Los Angeles bureau of NBC News.
  In November 2014, President Barack Obama presented Brokaw with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, American's highest civilian honor. He received the honor with the citation, "The chronicler of the Greatest Generation...we celebrate him as one of our nation’s greatest journalists". 
  On March 11, 2016, Brokaw gave one of the eulogies for former First Lady Nancy Reagan at her funeral. He spoke about his relationship with both the Reagans as a reporter and later anchor.
caption: Brokaw in 2006 speaking about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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