Tom Brokaw
American broadcast journalist and author · United States · On the map · Journalists · Born 1940 · age 86
Thomas John Brokaw is an American author and retired network television journalist. He first served as the co-anchor of The Today Show from 1976 to 1981 with Jane Pauley, then as the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years (1982-2004).
Tom Brokaw is read about 622 times a day, in 35 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
People around Tom
Family
Tom BrokawPartners
Is this everyone?
Only relatives with a profile here are drawn, so a family can be larger than this. A line here can also be wrong. A marriage is drawn as ended only where its end is recorded, so a spouse drawn here may be a former one.
Correct this familyMedia & music
Photos 8
Brokaw (left) greeting the 20,000th visitor to the Gavins Point Dam in 1958; Brokaw was a tour guide there.
Brokaw interviewing President Gerald Ford in 1976
Brokaw with Nancy Reagan at the Republican National Convention in August 1984
Brokaw preparing for a live broadcast in the aftermath of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake
Brokaw with Vladimir Putin before an interview on June 2, 2000
Brokaw in 2006 speaking about the attack on Pearl Harbor
Brokaw signing a book in Seattle in 2007Awards
About this person
In the previous decade he served as a weekend anchor for the program from 1973 to 1976. 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 formerly held a special correspondent post for NBC News.
