NBC News President Neal Shapiro vowed to redouble the company's minority hiring efforts. The year he took the helm, in December 2004, Williams had to apologize for saying there are "bigger problems" than newsroom diversity. Williams became anchor of NBC Nightly News on December 2, 2004, replacing the retiring Tom Brokaw. Williams also served as primary substitute anchor on The NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, and its weekend anchor. In the summer of 1996 he began serving as anchor and managing editor of The News with Brian Williams, broadcast on MSNBC and CNBC. Williams joined NBC News in 1993, where he anchored the national Weekend Nightly News and was chief White House correspondent. Beginning in 1987 he broadcast in New York City at WCBS. The following year he covered news in the Washington, D.C., area at then-independent station WTTG, then worked in Philadelphia for WCAU, then owned and operated by CBS. Williams first worked in broadcasting in 1981 at KOAM-TV in Pittsburg, Kansas. He later called leaving college one of his "great regrets". He did not earn a degree, ultimately interning with the administration of President Jimmy Carter. įollowing high school, Williams attended Brookdale Community College before transferring to the Catholic University of America and then George Washington University. His first job was as a busboy at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery. He suffered an accident during a football game that left him with a crooked nose. Also while in high school, he was the editorial editor for the school newspaper. While in high school, he was a volunteer firefighter for three years at the Middletown Township Fire Department. Williams graduated from Mater Dei High School, a Roman Catholic high school in the New Monmouth section of Middletown. He lived in Elmira, New York, for nine years before moving to Middletown Township, New Jersey, when he was in junior high school. Williams is the youngest of four siblings. 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.
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