Tom Brokaw

Career Milestones

• 2008

  Replaced Tim Russert, on an interim basis, as host of "Meet the Press" (NBC), until the end of the 2008 Presidential Campaign

• 2004

  Singed a contract with NBC News in a part-time capacity through 2014; will serve as an analyst as well as anchoring and producing documentary programs

• 2002

  Announced his intention to go under retirement as anchor of the NBC "Nightly News" effective after the 2004 Presidential election; also announced Brian Williams as his replacement

• 2002

  Published A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland

• 2001

  On Sept. 11th, Brokaw joined Katie Couric and Matt Lauer following the live attack on the South Tower of the World Trade Center, and continued to anchor all day, until after midnight