The Life of Brian
We had the good fortune of being invited by the South Asian Journalists Association to come up to Columbia University and film Brian Williams’ keynote address to their annual convention.
He spoke about his lifelong journey to the network chair, how the news is covered and whether the iPod is leading us back to a concept called broadcast TV. Actually, he made a lot of fun of the digital world, and that fun is funny even if I beg to differ.
Brian’s blog is called the Daily Nightly.
Below are highlights from his biography, his full biography can be read by following this link.
Brian Williams became the seventh anchor and managing editor in the distinguished history of “NBC Nightly News†on December 2, 2004. Now, more than a year-and-a-half at the helm of “Nightly News,†Williams is the nation’s most-watched news anchor. His nightly broadcast represents the largest single daily source of news in America. In June, the four-time Emmy winner received television’s highest honor, the George Foster Peabody Award, for his coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath…
…Since joining NBC News in 1993, Williams has become one of the nation’s foremost television journalists, covering virtually every major breaking news event and traveling extensively around the world. He is a veteran of political campaigns and elections, the Middle East, and has traveled to dozens of U.S. cities and foreign countries in the course of covering the news over more than two decades.
Michael Cervieri is a ScribeLabs co-founder and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs where he teaches a course called Tubes, Code and Content. On Twitter, he's @bmunch.
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