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NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast
television
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network
NBC
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. The division operates under
NBCUniversal Television and Streaming
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, a division of
NBCUniversal
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, which is, in turn, a subsidiary of
Comcast. The news division's various operations report to the president of NBC News,
Noah Oppenheim.
The NBCUniversal News Group also comprises
MSNBC
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, the network's 24-hour general news channel, business and consumer news channels
CNBC
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and
CNBC World, the Spanish language
Noticias Telemundo
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and United Kingdom–based
Sky News.
NBC News aired the first regularly scheduled news program in American broadcast television history on February 21, 1940. The group's broadcasts are produced and aired from
30 Rockefeller Plaza
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, NBCUniversal's headquarters in
New York City
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.
The division presides over America's number-one-rated newscast, ''
NBC Nightly News
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'', the world's first of its genre morning television program, ''
Today
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'', and the longest-running television series in American history, ''
Meet the Press
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'', the Sunday morning program of newsmakers interviews. NBC News also offers 70 years of rare historic footage from the
NBCUniversal Archives
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online.
History
Caravan era
The first regularly scheduled American television newscast in history was made by NBC News on February 21, 1940, anchored by
Lowell Thomas (1892–1981), and airing weeknights at 6:45 p.m. It was simply Lowell Thomas in front of a television camera while doing his NBC network radio broadcast, the television simulcast seen only in New York. In June 1940, NBC, through its flagship station in
New York City
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, W2XBS (renamed commercial WNBT in 1941, now
WNBC
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) operating on channel one, televised 30¼ hours of coverage of the
Republican National Convention live and direct from
Philadelphia
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. The station used a series of relays from Philadelphia to New York and on to upper
New York State
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, for rebroadcast on W2XB in
Schenectady
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(now
WRGB
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), making this among the first "network" programs of NBC Television. Due to wartime and technical restrictions, there were no live telecasts of the 1944 conventions, although films of the events were reportedly shown over WNBT the next day.
About this time, there were irregularly scheduled, quasi-network newscasts originating from NBC's WNBT in New York City, (
WNBC
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), and reportedly fed to WPTZ (now
KYW-TV) in Philadelphia and
WRGB
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in Schenectady, NY. Such as, Esso sponsored news features a well as The War As It Happens in the final days of World War II, another irregularly scheduled NBC television newsreel program which was also seen in New York, Philadelphia and Schenectady on the relatively few (roughly 5000) television sets which existed at the time. After the war, ''
NBC Television Newsreel
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'' aired filmed news highlights with narration. Later in 1948, when sponsored by
Camel Cigarettes
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Most current Camel cigarettes contain a blend of Turkish tobacco and Virg ...
, ''
NBC Television Newsreel
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'' was renamed ''
Camel Newsreel Theatre
''The Camel News Caravan'' or ''Camel Caravan of News'' was a 15-minute American television news program aired by NBC News from February 16, 1949 to October 26, 1956. Sponsored by the Camel cigarette brand and anchored by John Cameron Swayze, ...
'' and then, when
John Cameron Swayze was added as an on-camera anchor in 1949, the program was renamed ''
Camel News Caravan''.
In 1948, NBC teamed up with ''
Life
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'' magazine to provide election night coverage of President
Harry S. Truman's surprising victory over New York governor
Thomas E. Dewey. The television audience was small, but NBC's share in New York was double that of any other outlet. The following year, the ''
Camel News Caravan'', anchored by
John Cameron Swayze, debuted on NBC. Lacking the graphics and technology of later years, it nonetheless contained many of the elements of modern newscasts.
NBC hired its own film crews and in the program's early years, it dominated CBS's competing program, which did not hire its own film crews until 1953.
(by contrast, CBS spent lavishly on
Edward R. Murrow
Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe f ...
's weekly series, ''
See It Now''
). In 1950,
David Brinkley
David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.
From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, '' The Huntley–Brinkl ...
began serving as the program's
Washington
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correspondent, but attracted little attention outside the network until paired with
Chet Huntley
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in 1956.
In 1955, the ''Camel News Caravan'' fell behind
CBS
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's ''
Douglas Edwards with the News'', and Swayze lost the already tepid support of NBC executives.
The following year, NBC replaced the program with the ''
Huntley-Brinkley Report''.
Beginning in 1951, NBC News was managed by Director of News
Bill McAndrew, who reported to Vice President of News and Public Affairs J. Davidson Taylor.
Huntley-Brinkley era
![NBC News promotional photo 1961](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/NBC_News_promotional_photo_1961.JPG)
Television assumed an increasingly prominent role in American family life in the late 1950s, and NBC News was called television's "champion of news coverage." NBC president
Robert Kintner provided the news division with ample amounts of both financial resources and air time.
In 1956, the network paired anchors
Chet Huntley
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and
David Brinkley
David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.
From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, '' The Huntley–Brinkl ...
and the two became celebrities,
supported by reporters including
John Chancellor
John William Chancellor (July 14, 1927 – July 12, 1996) was an American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News. He is considered a pioneer in TV news. He served as anchor of the ''NBC Nightly News'' from 1970 to 1982 and continu ...
,
Frank McGee,
Edwin Newman
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,
Sander Vanocur,
Nancy Dickerson,
Tom Pettit, and Ray Scherer.
Created by Producer
Reuven Frank, NBC's ''
The Huntley–Brinkley Report
''The Huntley–Brinkley Report'' (sometimes known as ''The Texaco Huntley–Brinkley Report'' for one of its early sponsors) was an American evening news program that aired on NBC from October 29, 1956, to July 31, 1970. It was anchored by Chet ...
'' had its debut on October 29, 1956. During much of its 14-year run, it exceeded the viewership levels of its CBS News competition, anchored initially by
Douglas Edwards and, beginning in April 1962, by
Walter Cronkite
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the ''CBS Evening News'' for 19 years (1962–1981). During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the mo ...
.
![NBC logo 1954](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/NBC_logo_1954.svg)
NBC's Vice President of News and Public Affairs, J. Davidson Taylor, was a Southerner who, with Producer Reuven Frank, was determined that NBC would lead television's coverage of the
civil rights movement
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.
In 1955, NBC provided national coverage of
Martin Luther King Jr.
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's leadership of the
Montgomery bus boycott
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in
Montgomery, Alabama
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, airing reports from Frank McGee, then News Director of NBC's Montgomery affiliate
WSFA-TV, who would later join the network.
A year later, John Chancellor's coverage of the
admission of black students to
Central High School in
Little Rock, Arkansas
( The "Little Rock")
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, leader_title2 = Council
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was the first occasion when the key news story came from television rather than print
and prompted a prominent U.S. senator to observe later, "When I think of Little Rock, I think of John Chancellor."
Other reporters who covered the movement for the network included Sander Vanocur, Herbert Kaplow, Charles Quinn, and Richard Valeriani,
who was hit with an ax handle at a demonstration in
Marion, Alabama in 1965.
While Walter Cronkite's enthusiasm for the space race eventually won the anchorman viewers for CBS and NBC News, with the work of correspondents such as Frank McGee, Roy Neal,
Jay Barbree, and
Peter Hackes
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Early life and education
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, also provided ample coverage of American manned space missions in the
Project Mercury
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,
Project Gemini, and
Project Apollo programs. In an era when space missions rated continuous coverage, NBC configured its largest studio,
Studio 8H, for space coverage. It utilized models and mockups of rockets and spacecraft, maps of the earth and moon to show orbital trackage, and stages on which animated figures created by puppeteer
Bil Baird
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were used to depict movements of astronauts before on-board spacecraft television cameras were feasible. (Studio 8H had been home to the
NBC Symphony Orchestra and is now the home of ''
Saturday Night Live
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.'') NBC's coverage of the first moon landing in 1969 earned the network an
Emmy Award.
In the late 1950s, Kintner reorganized the chain of command at the network, making
Bill McAndrew president of NBC News, reporting directly to Kintner.
McAndrew served in that position until his death in 1968.
McAndrew was succeeded by his Executive Vice President, Producer Reuven Frank, who held the position until 1973.
On November 22, 1963, NBC interrupted various programs on its affiliate stations at 1:45 p.m. to announce that
President John F. Kennedy had been shot in
Dallas
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,
Texas
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. Eight minutes later, at 1:53:12 p.m., NBC broke into programming with a network bumper slide and
Chet Huntley
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,
Bill Ryan and
Frank McGee informing the viewers what was going on as it happened; but since a camera was not in service, the reports were audio-only. However, NBC did not begin broadcasting over the air until 1:57 p.m. ET. About 40 minutes later, after word came that JFK was pronounced dead, NBC suspended regular programming and carried 71 hours of uninterrupted news coverage of the assassination and the
funeral of the president—including the only live broadcast of the fatal shooting of Kennedy's assassin,
Lee Harvey Oswald
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Oswald was placed in juvenile detention at the age of 12 fo ...
, by
Jack Ruby as Oswald was being led in handcuffs by law-enforcement officials through the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters.
''NBC Nightly News'' era
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NBC's ratings lead began to slip toward the end of the 1960s and fell sharply when Chet Huntley retired in 1970 (Huntley died of cancer in 1974). The loss of Huntley, along with a reluctance by RCA to fund NBC News at a similar level as CBS was funding its news division, left NBC News in the doldrums. NBC's primary news show gained its present title, ''
NBC Nightly News
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'', on August 3, 1970.
The network tried a platoon of anchors (Brinkley, McGee, and
John Chancellor
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) during the early months of ''Nightly News''. Despite the efforts of the network's eventual lead anchor, the articulate, even-toned Chancellor, and an occasional first-place finish in the
Nielsens, ''Nightly News'' in the 1970s was primarily a strong second.
By the end of the decade, NBC had to contend not only with a powerful CBS but also a surging
ABC, led by
Roone Arledge.
Tom Brokaw
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became sole anchor in 1983, after co-anchoring with
Roger Mudd
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for a year, and began leading NBC's efforts. In 1986 and 1987, NBC won the top spot in the
Nielsens for the first time in years, only to fall back when Nielsen's ratings methodology changed. In late 1996, ''Nightly News'' again moved into first place, a spot it has held onto in most of the succeeding years.
Brian Williams assumed primary anchor duties when Brokaw retired in December 2004. In February 2015, NBC suspended Williams for six months for telling an inaccurate story about his experience in the
2003 invasion of Iraq
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.
He was replaced by
Lester Holt
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on an interim basis. On June 18, 2015, it was announced that Holt would become the permanent anchor and Williams would be moved to MSNBC as an anchor of breaking news and special reports beginning in August.
![NBC Nightly News Set](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/NBC_Nightly_News_Set.jpg)
In 1993, ''
Dateline NBC
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'' broadcast an investigative report about the safety of
General Motors (GM) trucks. GM discovered the "actual footage" utilized in the broadcast had been rigged by the inclusion of explosive incendiaries attached to the gas tanks and the use of improper sealants for those tanks. GM subsequently filed an anti-defamation lawsuit against NBC, which publicly admitted the results of the tests were rigged and settled the lawsuit with GM on the very same day.
On October 22, 2007, ''Nightly News'' moved into its new high definition studios, at Studio 3C at
NBC Studios in 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. The network's 24-hour cable network,
MSNBC
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, joined the network in New York on that day as well. The new studios/headquarters for NBC News and MSNBC are now located in one area.
2007–2016
During the
financial crisis of 2007–2008
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, NBC News was urged to save $500 million by NBC Universal. On that occasion, NBC News laid off several of its in-house reporters such as
Kevin Corke, Jeannie Ohm and Don Teague. This was the largest layoff in NBC News history.
After the sudden death of the influential moderator
Tim Russert
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of ''
Meet the Press
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'' in June 2008,
Tom Brokaw
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took over as an interim host; and on December 14, 2008,
David Gregory became the new moderator of the show until August 14, 2014, when NBC announced that NBC News Political Director
Chuck Todd
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would take over as the 12th moderator of
Meet the Press
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starting September 7, 2014. David Gregory's last broadcast was August 10, 2014.
By 2009, NBC had established leadership in network news, airing the highest-rated morning, evening, and Sunday interview news programs. Its ability to share costs with MSNBC and share in the cable network's advertising and subscriber revenue made it far more profitable than its network rivals.
![NBC Nightly News Broadcast](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/NBC_Nightly_News_Broadcast.jpg)
On March 27, 2012, NBC News broadcast an edited segment from a 911 call placed by
George Zimmerman
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before he
shot Trayvon Martin. The editing made it appear that Zimmerman volunteered that Martin was black, rather than merely responding to the dispatcher's inquiry, which would support a view that the shooting was racially motivated. A media watchdog organization accused NBC News of engaging in "an all-out falsehood." While NBC News initially declined to comment, the news agency did issue an apology to viewers.
''
The Washington Post
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'' called the statement "skimpy on the details on just how the mistake unfolded."
On December 13, 2012, NBC News reporter
Richard Engel
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and his five crew members, Aziz Akyavaş, Ghazi Balkiz, John Kooistra, Ian Rivers and Ammar Cheikh Omar, were
kidnapped in Syria. Having escaped after five days in captivity, Engel said he believed that a
Shabiha
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group loyal to
al-Assad
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was behind the abduction, and that the crew was freed by the
Ahrar al-Sham group five days later. Engel's account was however challenged from early on. In April 2015, NBC had to revise the kidnapping account, following further investigations by ''
The New York Times
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'', which suggested that the NBC team "was almost certainly taken by a Sunni criminal element affiliated with the
Free Syrian Army," rather than by a loyalist
Shia
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group.
In 2013, John Lapinski was Director of Elections, replacing Sheldon Gawiser. In 2015, the election team's
decision desk group was given its first permanent space at 30 Rockefeller, replacing the News Sales Archives that had occupied the space previously.
The NBC News Division was the first news team to possess the
tape of Donald Trump recorded by ''Access Hollywood'', after a producer of the NBC show had made the News Division aware of it; the News Division internally debated publishing it for three days, and then an unidentified source gave a copy of the tape to ''
The Washington Post
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'' Reporter
David Fahrenthold
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, who contacted NBC for comment, notified the Trump campaign that he had the video, obtained confirmation of its authenticity, and released a story and the tape itself, scooping NBC.
Alerted that the ''Post'' might release the story immediately,
NBC News released its own story shortly after the ''Post'' story was published.
Sexual misconduct and NBC News
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On November 29, 2017, NBC News announced that
Matt Lauer
Matthew Todd Lauer (; born December 30, 1957) is an American former television news personality, best known for his work with NBC News. After serving as a local news personality in New York City on WNBC, his first national exposure was as the ne ...
's employment had been terminated after an unidentified female NBC employee reported that Lauer had sexually harassed her during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and that the harassment continued after they returned to New York. NBC News management said it had been aware that ''The New York Times'' and ''Variety'' had been conducting independent investigations of Lauer's behavior,
but that management had been unaware of previous allegations against Lauer.
Linda Vester, a former NBC News correspondent, disputed the claims that management knew nothing, saying that "everybody knew" that Lauer was dangerous. According to
Ronan Farrow
Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow (born December 19, 1987) is an American journalist. The son of actress Mia Farrow and filmmaker Woody Allen, he is best known for his investigative reporting of allegations of sexual abuse against film producer H ...
, multiple sources have stated that NBC News was not only aware of Lauer's misconduct beforehand, but that Harvey Weinstein used this knowledge to pressure them into killing a story that would have outed his own sexual misconduct.
''Variety'' reported allegations by at least ten of Lauer's current and former colleagues.
Additional accusations went public in the ensuing days.
NBC News President
Noah Oppenheim suggested an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by
Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein (; born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer and convicted sex offender. He and his brother, Bob Weinstein, co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films includ ...
after NBC contributor
Ronan Farrow
Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow (born December 19, 1987) is an American journalist. The son of actress Mia Farrow and filmmaker Woody Allen, he is best known for his investigative reporting of allegations of sexual abuse against film producer H ...
pitched a general idea to report on sexual harassment in Hollywood. After a 10-month investigation by Farrow and NBC Producer Rich McHugh, NBC chose not to publish it.
The story, with very few changes, was published a few weeks later in the ''
New Yorker Magazine
''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...
'' instead.
A story on the subject of Weinstein's alleged behavior also appeared several days earlier in ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
''.
Following criticism for missing a major story it had initiated, NBC News defended the decision, saying that at the time Farrow was at NBC, the early reporting still had important missing necessary elements.
Farrow later disputed this characterization, saying that he had multiple named accusers willing to come forward and that the version ultimately published in the ''New Yorker'' had very few changes from the version that NBC News rejected.
This version went on to win the
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in April 2018. A former NBC News executive has said that the story on Weinstein was killed because NBC News was aware of the sexual misconduct by Lauer; in
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, Ronan Farrow cites two sources within
American Media, Inc. stating that the story was killed in response to an overt threat from Weinstein to out Lauer.
Presidents
Twelve people have served as president of NBC News during its history:
William R. McAndrew (managed since 1951, named president, 1965-1968),
Reuven Frank (1968–73, 1981–85),
Richard Wald (1973–77),
Lester Crystal (1977–79),
William J. Small (1979–81),
Lawrence Grossman (1985–88),
Michael Gartner
Michael Gartner (born October 25, 1938, in Des Moines, Iowa) is an American journalist, attorney and businessman. He was president of the Iowa Board of Regents.
Biography
A graduate of Carleton College and the New York University School of Law, ...
(1988–93),
Andrew Lack (1993–2001),
Neal Shapiro
Neal B. Shapiro (born March 9, 1958) is the President and CEO of WNET. He worked previously as the President of NBC News and the executive producer for ''Dateline NBC''. Prior to this Shapiro spent 13 years as a news producer at ABC News.
Early ...
(2001–05), and
Steve Capus
Stephen Allan "Steve" Capus (born October 4, 1963) is an Executive Editor of CBS News.
He is the former president of NBC News.
Early life and career
Steve Capus was born in 1963, the son of Jean and Paul Capus. His mother is a teacher's aide; his ...
(2005–March 5, 2013). In August 2013,
Deborah Turness
Deborah Mary Turness (born 4 March 1967) is an English journalist, former CEO of ITN, and current CEO of BBC News. Prior to this she held two positions in NBC News International where she was president of NBC News (2013–2017) and later ...
assumed the role as President of NBC News, becoming the first woman to head the division.
[New NBC News President Deborah Turness: 'My first job is to listen'](_blank)
, '' TVNewser'', August 5, 2013. In February 2017, ''
Today Show
''Today'' (also called ''The Today Show'' or informally, ''NBC News Today'') is an American news and talk morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It w ...
'' Producer and Executive
Noah Oppenheim was named President of NBC News.
Cesar Conde Present
Programming
![NBC News Washington](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/NBC_News_Washington.jpg)
* ''
Meet the Press
''Meet the Press'' is a weekly American television news/interview program broadcast on NBC. It is the longest-running program on American television, though the current format bears little resemblance to the debut episode on November 6, 1947. ' ...
'' (1947–present)
* ''
Today
Today (archaically to-day) may refer to:
* Day of the present, the time that is perceived directly, often called ''now''
* Current era, present
* The current calendar date
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Today'' (1930 film), a 1930 ...
'' (1952–present)
* ''
Today 3rd Hour
''Today'' (also called ''The Today Show'' or informally, ''NBC News Today'') is an American news and talk morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It wa ...
'' (2018–present)
* ''
NBC Nightly News
''NBC Nightly News'' (titled as ''NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt'' for its weeknight broadcasts since June 22, 2015) is the flagship daily evening News broadcasting#Television, television news program for NBC News, the news division of the NB ...
'' (1970–present)
* ''
Saturday Today'' (1992–present)
* ''
Dateline NBC
''Dateline NBC'' is a weekly American television news magazine/reality legal show that is broadcast on NBC. It was previously the network's flagship general interest news magazine, but now focuses mainly on true crime stories with only occasio ...
'' (1992–present)
* ''
Early Today
''Early Today'' is an American early morning television news program that is broadcast on NBC on weekday mornings. The program features general national and international news stories, financial and entertainment news, off-beat stories, nationa ...
'' (1982–1983; 1999–present)
* ''
Today with Hoda & Jenna
''Today with Hoda & Jenna '' (also known as the fourth hour of ''Today'' or simply ''Hoda & Jenna'') is an American daytime television talk show on NBC, hosted by Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager. The program airs as the fourth hour of NBC's ''Toda ...
'' (2019–present)
* ''
Sunday Today with Willie Geist'' (2016–present)
* ''
NBC News Daily'' (2022–present)
Former programming
* ''
Camel News Caravan'' (1948–1956)
* ''
The Huntley-Brinkley Report
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...
'' (1956–1970)
* ''
Weekend'' (1974–79)
* ''Ask NBC News'' (1979–1985)
* ''Prime Time Sunday/Saturday'' (1979–1980)
* ''NBC Magazine with
David Brinkley
David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.
From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, '' The Huntley–Brinkl ...
'' (1980–1982)
* ''
NBC News Overnight'' (1982–83)
* ''
NBC News at Sunrise
''NBC News at Sunrise'' is an American early morning television news program that aired on NBC from August 1, 1983 to September 6, 1999. The program featured the top news headlines of the morning, sports and weather reports, and business segment ...
'' (1983–99)
* ''Main Street'' (1985-1988)
* ''
Real Life with Jane Pauley'' (1990–91)
* ''Expose with Tom Brokaw'' (1991)
* ''
NBC Nightside'' (1991–98)
* ''
Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric'' (1993–94)
*''NBC News at This Hour'' (August 1975–1990s; previously branded as ''NBC News Update'', ''NBC News Capsule'' and ''NBC News Digest)''
* ''
Later Today
''Today'' (also called ''The Today Show'' or informally, ''NBC News Today'') is an American news and talk morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It w ...
'' (1999–2000)
* ''
Today with Kathie Lee and Hoda
''Today with Hoda & Jenna '' (also known as the fourth hour of ''Today'' or simply ''Hoda & Jenna'') is an American daytime television talk show on NBC, hosted by Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager. The program airs as the fourth hour of NBC's '' ...
'' (2008–2019)
* ''
Rock Center with Brian Williams
''Rock Center with Brian Williams'' was an American weekly television newsmagazine that was broadcast on NBC from October 31, 2011 to June 21, 2013 and hosted by former ''NBC Nightly News'' anchor Brian Williams. It aired on Mondays until January ...
'' (2011–13)
* ''
Today's Take'' (2012–2017)
* ''
Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly'' (June 4 – July 30, 2017)
* ''
Megyn Kelly Today'' (2017–2018)
Syndicated productions
* ''
The Chris Matthews Show
''The Chris Matthews Show'' was a half-hour weekend news and political round table program produced by NBC News. It was taped in Washington, D.C., and nationally syndicated by NBCUniversal Television Distribution. The program debuted on September ...
'' (2002–13)
Other productions
![MSNBC 2015 logo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/MSNBC_2015-2021_logo.png)
NBC News provides content for the Internet, as well as cable-only news networks
CNBC
CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American basic cable business news channel. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time, while broadcasting talk sho ...
and
MSNBC
MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and politi ...
. It produces a daily (formerly twice-daily show) called ''Stay Tuned'' for
Snapchat's Discover platform. It also produced programming for
Quibi
Quibi ( ) was a short-lived American short-form streaming platform that generated content for viewing on mobile devices. It was founded in Los Angeles in August 2018 as NewTV by Jeffrey Katzenberg and was led by Meg Whitman, its CEO. The serv ...
called ''The Report''. The ''Stay Tuned'' team launched ''The Overview'' on
Peacock in 2021.
NBC News International
In November 2016, NBC News Group chairman Andy Lack announced NBCUniversal intended to purchase a 25% stake in
Euronews, a European news organization competing against the likes of
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broad ...
and
ITV News The transaction was completed at the end of May 2017;
Deborah Turness
Deborah Mary Turness (born 4 March 1967) is an English journalist, former CEO of ITN, and current CEO of BBC News. Prior to this she held two positions in NBC News International where she was president of NBC News (2013–2017) and later ...
, former President of NBC News, was appointed to run "NBC News International," to perform NBC's role in the partnership, in which each network would contribute reporting to the other.
In April 2020, NBCUniversal sold its stake in Euronews to focus all resources on the launch of
NBC Sky World News, which was scheduled to launch later in 2020. However, the proposed new service was scrapped in August 2020, resulting in layoffs of 60 employees.
NBC News Radio
![Nbcnewsradio](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Nbcnewsradio.svg)
NBC News Radio is an
All-news radio service produced by
iHeartMedia through its TTWN Networks
subsidiary, in partnership with NBCU's news division. It has been available on
iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia's online live audio and
podcast
A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosin ...
ing platform, on different supports (
Web and
smartphone apps
A mobile application or app is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch. Mobile applications often stand in contrast to desktop applications which are designed to run on des ...
) since July 2016. It can be heard around the clock in 15-minute cycles with the latest news, sports and other features. It uses the slogan "The news you want, when you want it." It also supplies hourly newscasts to subscribing radio stations.
While it is not owned by NBCUniversal itself, NBC News Radio features reports from NBC News
correspondent
A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, locati ...
s, presented by anchors who are iHeartMedia employees. It is also provided to NBC's 24/7 News Source radio station
affiliates
In the broadcasting industry (particularly in North America, and even more in the United States), a network affiliate or affiliated station is a local broadcaster, owned by a company other than the owner of the network, which carries some or ...
as a service, including one-minute and two-minute hourly newscasts along with other audio content, such as features on money, health, politics and sports, heard on over 1,000 radio stations.
WOR in
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...
serves as NBC News Radio's
flagship.
The current NBC News Radio digital station is NBC's first step into the all-news radio format since the closure of its ephemeral NBC News & Information Service (NIS) was heard on radio stations across the U.S. from 1975 to 1977. The service was not profitable for NBC and was discontinued after two years. The original major
NBC Radio Network was purchased by
Westwood One
Westwood One is an American radio network owned by Cumulus Media. The company syndicates talk, music, and sports programming.
The company takes its name from an earlier network also named Westwood One, a company founded in 1978. The compan ...
a decade later, in 1987, as
General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable en ...
, which had acquired NBC's parent company
RCA
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919. It was initially a patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse, AT&T Corporation and United Fruit Comp ...
, divested most properties not pertaining to the NBC television network, thus ending its direct participation in the radio business. NBC Radio Network's news operation was merged into the
Mutual Broadcasting System
The Mutual Broadcasting System (commonly referred to simply as Mutual; sometimes referred to as MBS, Mutual Radio or the Mutual Radio Network) was an American commercial radio network in operation from 1934 to 1999. In the Old-time radio, golden ...
, then into Westwood One's then-corporate sibling
CBS Radio, and eventually assimilated into the syndicator itself.
For years, Westwood One has carried on syndicating several NBC-branded shows to affiliate radio stations, including audio versions of current-affairs NBC TV shows such as ''
Meet the Press
''Meet the Press'' is a weekly American television news/interview program broadcast on NBC. It is the longest-running program on American television, though the current format bears little resemblance to the debut episode on November 6, 1947. ' ...
'', a practice that continues to date. As for ''hard news'' programming, Westwood One used to provide an homonymous ''NBC News Radio'' service, which was initially limited to a feed of one-hour reports updated from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. ET offered to subscriber local stations.
Dial Global
Westwood One is an American radio network owned by Cumulus Media. The company syndicates talk, music, and sports programming.
The company takes its name from an earlier network also named Westwood One, a company founded in 1978. The company ...
–which has branded itself ''Westwood One'' since 2013– announced on March 5, 2012, its aim to expand NBC News Radio to a full-time 24-hour radio news network, replacing
CNN Radio
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by t ...
(that itself replaced both NBC Radio and Mutual in 1999). The original NBC News Radio service was eventually discontinued on December 14, 2014. That coincided with the launch of the new,
white-label Westwood One News service.
It used content from
WarnerMedia
Warner Media, LLC ( traded as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City, United States.
It was originally established in 1972 by ...
's
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
but was discontinued in 2019.
In addition to NBC News Radio, the audio portions of NBC News cable networks
MSNBC
MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and politi ...
and
CNBC
CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American basic cable business news channel. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time, while broadcasting talk sho ...
are available as Internet radio stations through the
TuneIn
TuneIn is a global audio streaming service delivering live news, radio, sports, music, and podcasts to over 75 million monthly active users.
TuneIn is operated by the company TuneIn Inc. which is based in San Francisco, California. The compan ...
podcasting service as well as the
SiriusXM
Sirius XM Holdings Inc. is an American broadcasting company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City that provides satellite radio and online radio services operating in the United States. It was formed by the 2008 merger of Sirius Sa ...
satellite radio platform.
''NBC News Overnight'' and ''NBC'' ''Nightside''
In 1982, NBC News began production on ''
NBC News Overnight'' with anchors
Linda Ellerbee,
Lloyd Dobyns, and Bill Schechner. It usually aired at 1:35 a.m. E.T., following ''
The Tonight Show
''The Tonight Show'' is an American late-night talk show that has aired on NBC since 1954. The show has been hosted by six comedians: Steve Allen (1954–1957), Jack Paar (1957–1962), Johnny Carson (1962–1992), Jay Leno (1992–2009 and 201 ...
'' and ''
Late Night with David Letterman''.
NBC News Overnight was cancelled in December 1983, but in 1991, NBC News launched another overnight news show called ''
NBC Nightside''. During its run, the show's anchors included Sara James, Bruce Hall,
Antonio Mora, Tom Miller,
Campbell Brown, Kim Hindrew, Tom Donavan, and Tonya Strong. It was based at NBC
Network affiliate
In the broadcasting industry (particularly in North America, and even more in the United States), a network affiliate or affiliated station is a local broadcaster, owned by a company other than the owner of the network, which carries some or a ...
WCNC-TV
WCNC-TV (channel 36) is a television station in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, affiliated with NBC. The station is owned by Tegna Inc. WCNC-TV's studios are located in the Wood Ridge Center office complex off Billy Graham Parkway ...
in
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populo ...
. It provided an overnight news service which NBC affiliates could air until early morning programming began, in effect providing programming to help them stay on the air 24/7. At the time, a few NBC affiliates had begun using
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
's
Headline News service to provide overnight programming, and NBC decided to offer the network's own overnight news service.
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainm ...
and
ABC also began their own overnight news programming, as well. In addition, the facility produced a 24-hour news service aimed to Latin American viewers called "Canal de Noticias, NBC. The serviced closed in 1997 and five years later, the network bought Telemundo.
''NBC Nightside'' lasted until 1998 and was replaced by "NBC All Night," composed of reruns of ''
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'' is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that first aired from May 25, 1992, to May 29, 2009. It resumed production on March 1, 2010 and ended on February 6, 2014.
The fourth incarnation of the ...
'' and ''
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien. NBC aired 2,725 episodes from September 13, 1993, to February 20, 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and music ...
'', and later from January 1, 2007, to September 23, 2011, ''
Poker After Dark
''Poker After Dark'' is an hour-long poker television program that originally aired on NBC, premiering on January 1, 2007. ''. NBC now airs same day repeats of the
fourth hour of ''Today'' and CNBC's ''
Mad Money
''Mad Money'' is an American finance television program hosted by Jim Cramer that began airing on CNBC on March 14, 2005. Its main focus is investment and speculation, particularly in public company stocks.
Cramer defines "mad money" as th ...
'' on weekdays,
LXTV programs on early Sunday mornings, and ''Meet the Press'' and ''Dateline'' encores on early Monday mornings.
Units
Current
*
NBCUniversal Archives
NBCUniversal Archives offers access to years worth of footage from NBCUniversal and its owned-and-operated stations. With headquarters in 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the Archives contain everything from rare, award-winning footage, to 3D graphics produ ...
* NBC News Studios – documentary production unit founded on January 23, 2020
**
MSNBC Films
* NBC News Channel – a news video and report feed service similar to a wire service, providing pre-produced international, national and regional stories some with fronting reporters customized for NBC network affiliates. It is based in
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populo ...
with bureaus in
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...
at
30 Rockefeller Plaza
30 Rockefeller Plaza (officially the Comcast Building; formerly RCA Building and GE Building) is a skyscraper that forms the centerpiece of Rockefeller Center in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Completed in 1933, the 66-s ...
,
Washington, D.C.
)
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on North Capital Street NW,
Chicago
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at the
NBC Tower
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The NBC Tower is an office tower on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois located at 454 North Columbus Drive (455 North Cityfront Plaza is also used as a vanity address for the building) in downtown Chicago's Magnificent Mile area. ...
, and in
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, largest city in the U.S. state, state of California and the List of United States cities by population, sec ...
at the Brokaw News Center on the
Universal Studios Hollywood
Universal Studios Hollywood is a film studio and theme park in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles County, California. About 70% of the studio lies within the unincorporated county island known as Universal City while the rest lies w ...
Lot with satellite bureaus at
WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida and at
KUSA-TV
KUSA (channel 9) is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KTVD (channel 20). Both stations share studios on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's S ...
in Denver, Colorado. Its headquarters in Charlotte are connected to the studios of Charlotte NBC affiliate
WCNC-TV
WCNC-TV (channel 36) is a television station in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, affiliated with NBC. The station is owned by Tegna Inc. WCNC-TV's studios are located in the Wood Ridge Center office complex off Billy Graham Parkway ...
. NBC News Channel also served as the production base of ''NBC Nightside'' and "Canal de Noticias, NBC."
* NBC News Digital Group
**NBC News Now – free streaming service launched May 29, 2019, under Janelle Rodriguez, Senior Vice President of Editorial for NBC News and MSNBC. Initial operated without an anchor until they hired
Alison Morris, formerly of Fox 5 in New York, starting on July 1, 2019. The service is streamed live on YouTube internationally, Peacock streaming service in the USA and Canada, and on Sky TV and Virgin Media in the UK. The OTT services was announced in October 2018 as NBC News Signal with Simone Boyce original tapped as the evening (7 PM) host with two MSNBC as acting as hosts. The channel broadcasts rolling news on weekdays from 5am ET until early evening with NBC news magazines, including ''
Dateline NBC
''Dateline NBC'' is a weekly American television news magazine/reality legal show that is broadcast on NBC. It was previously the network's flagship general interest news magazine, but now focuses mainly on true crime stories with only occasio ...
'' and ''
Meet the Press
''Meet the Press'' is a weekly American television news/interview program broadcast on NBC. It is the longest-running program on American television, though the current format bears little resemblance to the debut episode on November 6, 1947. ' ...
'' shown overnight and at the weekend.
Former
*
Peacock Productions
Peacock Productions was a long-form production unit of NBC News. The division, established on July 15, 2007, primarily produced one-off factual programs and specials, airing across both NBCUniversal and third-party networks. Peacock served as an ...
Bureaus
Major bureaus
*
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...
: NBC News Headquarters (
WNBC
WNBC (channel 4) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Linden, New Jersey–licensed Telemundo stati ...
)
1
*
Universal City, California
Universal City is an unincorporated area within the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States. Approximately 415 acres (1.7 km) within and around the surrounding area is the property of Universal Pictur ...
(
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, largest city in the U.S. state, state of California and the List of United States cities by population, sec ...
): West Coast Bureau (
KNBC)
1
*
Washington, D.C.
)
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: Washington DC Bureau (
WRC-TV
WRC-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Washington, D.C., airing programming from the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Class A Telemundo outlet WZDC-CD (channel 44 ...
)
1
*
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
: Foreign Desk
Minor bureaus (within the United States)
*
Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...
(
WXIA-TV
WXIA-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate WATL (channel 36). Both stations share studios at One Monroe Place on the north ...
)
*
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
(
WBTS–CD)
1
*
Chicago
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WMAQ-TV
WMAQ-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, airing programming from the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Telemundo outlet WSNS-TV (c ...
)
1
*
Denver
Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the Unit ...
(
KUSA-TV
KUSA (channel 9) is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KTVD (channel 20). Both stations share studios on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's S ...
)
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Fort Worth – Dallas (
KXAS-TV)
1
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Houston
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 i ...
(
KPRC-TV)
*
Miami – Fort Lauderdale (
WTVJ
WTVJ (channel 6) is a television station in Miami, Florida, United States, airing programming from the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Fort Lauderdale–licensed WSCV (ch ...
)
1
*
New Britain – Hartford – New Haven (
WVIT)
1
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, largest city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the List of United States cities by population, sixth-largest city i ...
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WCAU
WCAU (channel 10) is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, airing programming from the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Mount Laurel, New Jer ...
)
1
*
San Diego
San Diego ( , ; ) is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a 2020 population of 1,386,932, it is the eighth most populous city in the United State ...
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KNSD
KNSD (channel 39) is a television station in San Diego, California, United States, airing programming from the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations alongside Poway-licensed Telemundo outlet KUA ...
)
1
*
San Jose – San Francisco – Oakland (
KNTV)
1
*
San Juan, PR
San Juan (, , ; Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2020 census, it is the 57th-largest city under the ...
(
WKAQ-TV
WKAQ-TV (channel 2) is a television station in San Juan, Puerto Rico, airing programming from the Telemundo and NBC networks. It is owned and operated by the Telemundo Station Group subsidiary of NBCUniversal. WKAQ-TV's studios are located o ...
)
1
*
1 All NBC
owned-and-operated stations are considered NBC News bureaus.
Foreign bureaus (NBC News/CNBC/MSNBC)
*
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...
, South Africa (CNBC Africa headquarters)
*
Kabul
Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...
, Afghanistan (NBC News)
*
Nairobi
Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper h ...
, Kenya (CNBC Africa)
*
Abuja, Nigeria (CNBC Africa)
*
Lagos
Lagos (Nigerian English: ; ) is the largest city in Nigeria and the second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper. Lagos was the national capital of Nigeria until December 1991 fo ...
, Nigeria (CNBC Africa)
*
Cape Town
Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest ...
, South Africa (CNBC Africa)
*
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...
(CNBC Asia headquarters)
*
Sydney, Australia (CNBC Asia)
*
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
, Australia (NBC News Asia Pacific)
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Managua
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Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...
(Canal 15 Nicaragua-Telemundo 51
WSCV
WSCV (channel 51) is a television station licensed to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, broadcasting Telemundo programming to the Miami area. It is one of two flagship stations of the Spanish-language network (the other being WNJU in t ...
)
*
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
, Japan (Nikkei CNBC)
*
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
(CNBC Asia)
*
Beijing
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
, China (NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC)
*
Frankfurt
Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on it ...
, Germany (CNBC Europe)
*
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
, Iraq (MSNBC and CNBC Asia)
*
Beirut
Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint o ...
, Lebanon (MSNBC and CNBC Asia)
*
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, Israel/Palestine (MSNBC and CNBC Asia)
*
New Delhi
New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament Ho ...
, India (CNBC-TV18)
*
Jakarta, Indonesia (CNBC Indonesia)
*
Bangkok
Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated populati ...
, Thailand (NBC News Asia Pacific and CNBC Asia)
*
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...
, Iran (NBC News)
Noted coverage
NBC News got the first American news interviews from two Russian presidents (
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime min ...
,
Mikhail Gorbachev), and Brokaw was the only American television news correspondent to witness the fall of the
Berlin Wall in 1989.
Notable personnel
Anchors and hosts
*
Peter Alexander – ''Saturday Today'' Co-Anchor & Chief White House Correspondent (2004–present)
*
Dara Brown – MSNBC Reports Overnight Anchor
*
Mika Brzezinski
Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski Scarborough (; pl, Brzezińska; born May 2, 1967) is an American talk show host, liberal political commentator, and author who currently co-hosts MSNBC's weekday morning broadcast show ''Morning Joe''. She was forme ...
– MSNBC's ''
Morning Joe'' Co-Anchor
*
Carson Daly – ''Today'' Features Anchor & NBC's ''
The Voice
The Voice may refer to:
Fictional entities
* The Voice or Presence, a fictional representation of God in DC Comics
* The Voice (''Dune''), a fictional ability in the ''Dune'' universe
* The Voice, a character in the American TV series ''Cleo ...
'' Host
*
José Díaz-Balart – ''
NBC Nightly News
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'' Saturday Anchor (2015–present) & Jose Diaz-Balart Reports Anchor
*
Jonathan Capehart – Host of ''The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart'' on MSNBC.
*
Tiffany Cross Host of ''The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross'' on MSNBC.
*
Dylan Dreyer
Dylan Marie Dreyer (born August 2, 1981) is an American television meteorologist working for NBC News. She is also an anchor on Today's 3rd Hour. Dreyer frequently appears on ''Today'' on weekdays as a weather correspondent and as a fill-in for ...
– ''3rd Hour Today'' Co-Anchor & NBC News Meteorologist
*
Joe Fryer – Morning News Now Co-Anchor, Saturday Today Features Anchor & Correspondent
*
Willie Geist
William Russell Geist (born May 3, 1975) is an American television personality and journalist. He is co-anchor of MSNBC's ''Morning Joe'' and anchor of ''Sunday Today with Willie Geist''. Geist also frequently serves as a fill-in anchor on bot ...
– ''Sunday Today'' Anchor, MSNBC's ''
Morning Joe'' Co-Anchor and NBC News Correspondent
*
Aaron Gilchrist – Anchor, NBC News Now Live with Aaron Gilchrist
*
Savannah Guthrie
Savannah Clark Guthrie (born December 27, 1971) is an American broadcast journalist and attorney. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News, morning show ''Today'', a position she has held since July 2012.
Guthrie joined NBC News in September 2 ...
– ''Today'' Co-Anchor & NBC News Chief Legal Correspondent (2007–present)
*
Jenna Bush Hager
Jenna Welch Bush Hager (born November 25, 1981) is an American news personality, author, and journalist. She is the co-host of ''Today with Hoda & Jenna'', the fourth hour of NBC's morning news program ''Today (U.S. TV program), Today.'' Hager an ...
– Co-host of ''
Today with Hoda & Jenna
''Today with Hoda & Jenna '' (also known as the fourth hour of ''Today'' or simply ''Hoda & Jenna'') is an American daytime television talk show on NBC, hosted by Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager. The program airs as the fourth hour of NBC's ''Toda ...
'', NBC News Correspondent
*
Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Raza Hasan (born July 1979) is a British-American political journalist, broadcaster and author of Indian descent.
Hasan has been the host of ''The Mehdi Hasan Show'' on Peacock since October 2020 and on MSNBC since February 2021.
In 2 ...
– Anchor of ''The Medhi Hasan Show'' on MSNBC and Peacock
*
Chris Hayes
Christopher Loffredo Hayes (; born February 28, 1979) is an American political commentator, television news anchor, activist, and author. Hayes hosts ''All In with Chris Hayes'', a weekday news and opinion television show on MSNBC. Hayes also ...
– Host of ''
All In with Chris Hayes
''All In with Chris Hayes'' is an American news television program that airs weekdays at 8:00 p.m. ET on MSNBC. It is hosted by Chris Hayes, who previously hosted ''Up with Chris Hayes'' on MSNBC weekends. The show premiered on April 1, 2013. ...
'' on MSNBC
*
Lester Holt
Lester Don Holt Jr. (born March 8, 1959) is an American journalist and news anchor for the weekday edition of ''NBC Nightly News'' and ''Dateline NBC''. On June 18, 2015, Holt was made the permanent anchor of ''NBC Nightly News'' following the ...
– ''
NBC Nightly News
''NBC Nightly News'' (titled as ''NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt'' for its weeknight broadcasts since June 22, 2015) is the flagship daily evening News broadcasting#Television, television news program for NBC News, the news division of the NB ...
'' Anchor; also Primary Anchor of ''
Dateline NBC
''Dateline NBC'' is a weekly American television news magazine/reality legal show that is broadcast on NBC. It was previously the network's flagship general interest news magazine, but now focuses mainly on true crime stories with only occasio ...
'' (2011–present)
*
Hallie Jackson
Hallie Marie Jackson (born April 29, 1984) is Senior Washington correspondent for NBC News, an anchor for both its cable and streaming divisions, MSNBC and NBC News Now, a fill-in and substitute anchor for ''Today'', Sunday Today With Willie Ge ...
– Senior Washington Correspondent & Hallie Jackson Reports & Hallie Jackson NOW Anchor
*
Chris Jansing
Christine Ann Kapostasy-Jansing (born January 30, 1957) is an American television journalist. She anchors ''Chris Jansing Reports'' airing from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET weekdays on MSNBC, having replaced ''MTP Daily'' in May 2022.
Jans ...
– Anchor, Chris Jansing Reports & MSNBC/NBC News Senior National Correspondent
*
Joshua Johnson ''- NBC News correspondent & Now News Tonight Anchor''
*
Sheinelle Jones
Sheinelle Marie Jones (born April 19, 1978) is an American journalist and a news anchor and correspondent for NBC News. She is one of the hosts of the third hour of ''Today'' on weekdays.
She is also the host of the educational nature program '' ...
– ''3rd Hour Today'' Co-Anchor & NBC News correspondent
*
Bill Karins
William J. Karins (born April 14, 1974) is an American meteorologist, working for NBC News. He is currently seen primarily on NBC's ''Early Today'' and '' Top Story with Tom Llamas''. He also occasionally reports weekdays for MSNBC's '' First L ...
– MSNBC Weather Anchor & NBC News Chief Meteorologist
*
Hoda Kotb
Hoda Kotb ( ; arz, هدى قطب, ''Hudā Quṭb''; ; born August 9, 1964) is an American broadcast journalist, television personality, and author. She is a main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show ''Today'' and co-host of its entertainment ...
– ''Today'' Co-Anchor & Co-host of ''
Today with Hoda & Jenna
''Today with Hoda & Jenna '' (also known as the fourth hour of ''Today'' or simply ''Hoda & Jenna'') is an American daytime television talk show on NBC, hosted by Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager. The program airs as the fourth hour of NBC's ''Toda ...
''
*
Richard Lui
Richard Lui is an American journalist and news anchor for MSNBC and NBC News. Lui is currently a breaking news anchor for NBC and MSNBC, broadcasting from 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. prior to that role he was a co-h ...
– MSNBC and NBC News Breaking News Anchor
*
Tom Llamas
Thomas Edward Llamas ( ; born July 2, 1979) is an American journalist who was the weekend anchor for '' World News Tonight'' on ABC from 2014 to 2021. Afterward, he left ABC News for rival NBC News, with his last ABC broadcast being on January 3 ...
- NBC News Senior National Correspondent & NBC News Now Breaking News & anchor of ''Top Story with Tom Llamas''
*
Rachel Maddow
Rachel Anne Maddow (, ; born April 1, 1973) is an American television news program host and liberal political commentator. Maddow hosts ''The Rachel Maddow Show'', a weekly television show on MSNBC, and serves as the cable network's special eve ...
– MSNBC's ''
The Rachel Maddow Show
''The Rachel Maddow Show'' (also abbreviated ''TRMS'') is an American liberal news and opinion television program that airs on MSNBC, running in the 9:00 pm ET timeslot Monday evenings. It is hosted by Rachel Maddow, who gained a public pr ...
'' Anchor and NBC News Senior Political Analyst
*
Ari Melber
Ari Naftali Melber (born March 31, 1980) is an American attorney and journalist who is the chief legal correspondent for MSNBC and host of ''The Beat with Ari Melber.''
The show premiered on July 24, 2017, and became the "longest-running" show ...
– Chief Legal Correspondent & Anchor of MSNBC's
The Beat with Ari Melber
''The Beat with Ari Melber'' is an American news and politics program hosted by Ari Melber, who is the chief legal correspondent for the network MSNBC. It airs weekdays at 6 PM ET.
Guest hosts for the series include Mehdi Hasan, Jason Johnson, ...
*
Craig Melvin
Craig Delano Melvin (born May 20, 1979) is an American broadcast journalist and anchor at NBC News and MSNBC. In August 2018, he became a news anchor on NBC's ''Today'' and, in October 2018, a co-host of ''Today Third Hour'' before being made ...
– ''Today'' News Anchor, ''3rd Hour Today'' Co-Anchor & ''MSNBC Reports Overnight Anchor''
*
Phillip Mena–
Early Today
''Early Today'' is an American early morning television news program that is broadcast on NBC on weekday mornings. The program features general national and international news stories, financial and entertainment news, off-beat stories, nationa ...
Co-Anchor
*
Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell (born October 30, 1946) is an American television journalist, anchor and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C.
She is NBC News' chief foreign affairs & chief Washington correspondent, reporting on the 2008 presid ...
– MSNBC's ''
Andrea Mitchell Reports
''Andrea Mitchell Reports'' is a news show on MSNBC broadcast weekdays at 12 PM ET/9 AM PT hosted by Andrea Mitchell. She originally was an anchor under the ''MSNBC Live'' umbrella before getting her own distinct show. She is the NBC News Chief F ...
'' Anchor & NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs & Chief Washington Correspondent (1978–present)
*
Ayman Mohyeldin
Ayman ( ar, أيمن, also spelled as Aiman, Aimen, Aymen, or Eymen in the Latin alphabet) is an Arabic masculine given name. It is derived from the Arabic Semitic root () for ''right'', and literally means ''righteous'', ''he who is on the right'' ...
– Correspondent, AYMAN Anchor
*
Vicky Nguyen
Vicky Nguyen (born ) is a Vietnamese people, Vietnamese-born American investigative journalism, investigative journalist working with NBC News in New York City. Nguyen joined NBC News in April 2019 as the Investigative and Consumer correspondent. ...
– Co-Anchor, NBC News Now Live with Morgan Radford & Vicky Nguyen & NBC News Senior Investigative & Consumer Correspondent
*
Lawrence O'Donnell
Lawrence Francis O'Donnell Jr. (born November 7, 1951) is an American television anchor, actor, liberal political commentator, and host of ''The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell'', an MSNBC opinion and news program that airs on weeknights.
He ...
– Host of ''
The Last Word'' on MSNBC
*
Katie Phang – Anchor of ''The Katie Phang Show'' on MSNBC and Peacock
*
Morgan Radford
Morgan Kelly Radford (born November 18, 1987) is an American television news anchor & reporter employed by NBC News as a New York-based correspondent.
Early life and education
Radford is originally from Greensboro, North Carolina. Her mothe ...
– Co-Anchor, NBC News Now Live with Morgan Radford & Vicky Nguyen & NBC News Correspondent
*
Milissa Rehberger – MSNBC Reports Anchor
*
Joy Reid
Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Reid (born December 8, 1968), known professionally as Joy Reid, is an American cable television host, MSNBC national correspondent, liberal political commentator, and author. She hosted the weekly MSNBC morning show, ''AM Joy' ...
– MSNBC's The ReidOut Anchor
*
Frances Rivera –
Early Today
''Early Today'' is an American early morning television news program that is broadcast on NBC on weekday mornings. The program features general national and international news stories, financial and entertainment news, off-beat stories, nationa ...
Co-Anchor
*
Al Roker
Albert Lincoln Roker Jr. (born August 20, 1954) is an American weather presenter, journalist, television personality, and author. He is the current weather anchor on NBC's ''Today'', and occasionally co-hosts '' 3rd Hour Today''. He has an ina ...
– Chief NBC News Meteorologist, ''Today'' Weather & Features Anchor, and ''3rd Hour Today'' Co-Anchor
*
Steven Romo – NBC News correspondent and NBC News Now anchor
*
Stephanie Ruhle – Senior Business Analyst, Anchor of MSNBC's
The 11th Hour
*
Lindsey Reiser – MSNBC Reports Anchor
*
Savannah Sellers – Morning News Now Co-Anchor, Stay Tuned Co-Anchor & Correspondent
*
Kate Snow
Kate Snow (born June 10, 1969) is an American television journalist for NBC News, serving as Senior National Correspondent to various NBC platforms, including ''Today'', ''NBC Nightly News'', ''Dateline NBC'', and MSNBC. Snow also anchors the Sund ...
– ''
NBC Nightly News
''NBC Nightly News'' (titled as ''NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt'' for its weeknight broadcasts since June 22, 2015) is the flagship daily evening News broadcasting#Television, television news program for NBC News, the news division of the NB ...
'' Sunday Anchor & NBC News Senior National Correspondent & NBC News Now Breaking News Anchor
*
Joe Scarborough
Charles Joseph Scarborough (; born April 9, 1963) is an American television host, attorney, political commentator, and former politician who is the co-host of '' Morning Joe'' on MSNBC with his wife Mika Brzezinski. He previously hosted ''Scarbo ...
– MSNBC's ''Morning Joe'' Co-Anchor & NBC News Senior Political Analyst
*
Chuck Todd
Charles David Todd (born April 8, 1972) is an American television journalist who is the 12th and current moderator of NBC's ''Meet the Press''. He also hosts ''Meet the Press Now'', its daily edition on NBC News Now and is the Political Directo ...
– NBC News Political Director & ''Meet The Press'' Moderator
*
Katy Tur
Katherine Bear Tur (born October 26, 1983) is an American author and broadcast journalist working as a correspondent for NBC News. Tur is an anchor for MSNBC Reports, where since 2021 she has hosted ''Katy Tur Reports'' on MSNBC. She has also re ...
– NBC News Correspondent & Katy Tur Reports Anchor
*
Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi (born October 29, 1968 or 1969) is a Canadian television journalist, a senior economic and business correspondent for NBC News since October 2016. He was also substitute anchor for '' Top Story with Tom Llamas'' on NBC News Now at we ...
– Correspondent, Anchor of ''
Velshi''
*
Yasmin Vossoughian
Yasmin Vossoughian is a television journalist who currently is a weekend news anchor on MSNBC.
Vossoughian's regular anchor time slots are on Saturdays and Sundays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., hosting ''Yasmin Vossoughian Reports''.
She pre ...
– Yasmin Vossoughlan Reports Anchor
*
Nicolle Wallace
Nicolle Wallace (née Devenish; born February 4, 1972) is an American television host and author. She is known for her work as the anchor of the MSNBC news and politics program '' Deadline: White House'' and a former co-host of the ABC daytime ...
– NBC News Senior Political Analyst & ''Deadline: White House'' Anchor (2015–present)
*
Kristen Welker
Kristen Welker (born July 1, 1976) is an American television journalist working for NBC News. She serves as a White House correspondent based in Washington, D.C., and co-anchor of '' Weekend Today'', the Saturday edition of ''Today'', alongside ...
– ''Saturday Today'' Co-Anchor & Chief White House Correspondent (2010–present)
*
Alex Witt – Alex Witt Reports Anchor
US-based correspondents and reporters
* Julia Ainsley – Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security Correspondent
*
Monica Alba – White House Correspondent
*
Blayne Alexander – Atlanta-based Correspondent
*
Ron Allen – New York-based correspondent
*
Miguel Almaguer
Miguel Almaguer (born March 11, 1977) is an American journalist. He is a correspondent for NBC News, reporting for all divisions of the network and based at its Los Angeles bureau.
Early life and education
Almaguer was born in Oakland, Califor ...
– Los Angeles-based Correspondent
*
Ellison Barber – New York-based Correspondent
* Maura Barrett – Correspondent
* Catie Beck – Atlanta-based Correspondent
* Shaquille Brewster – Correspondent
* Sam Brock – Miami-based Correspondent
*
Andrea Canning
Andrea Mead Canning (born December 10, 1972) is a Canadian-American journalist and writer. She was named a ''Dateline NBC'' correspondent in October 2012 and contributes to other NBC News platforms such as ''Today,'' ''NBC Nightly News '' and MSN ...
– NBC News Correspondent & ''Dateline NBC'' Correspondent (2012–present)
* Morgan Chesky – Correspondent
*
Tom Costello – Aviation, Transportation, Economics, and Cybersecurity Correspondent (1996–Present)
* Kristen Dahlgren – Correspondent
*
Maya Eaglin - Digital Reporter
*
Rehema Ellis
Rehema Ellis is an American television journalist, working for NBC News. A correspondent based in New York City, New York, she is also the lead education correspondent for NBC News.
Early life and education
Ellis was born in North Carolina, a ...
– Chief Education Correspondent (1994–present)
* Zinhle Essamuah – Correspondent
* Meagan Fitzgerald – Foreign Correspondent
*
Joelle Garguilo
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– ''Weekend Today'' Correspondent
*
Stephanie Gosk – Correspondent
*
Gabe Gutierrez – New York-based correspondent
* Isa Gutierrez – Correspondent
*
Garrett Haake – Senior Capitol Hill Correspondent
* Vaughn Hillyard – Correspondent
*
Antonia Hylton – Correspondent
*
Jo Ling Kent – Senior Business & Technology Correspondent Los Angeles-based
* Jinah Kim – Business and Technology Correspondent
* Jesse Kirsch- Correspondent
*
Steve Kornacki
Stephan Joseph Kornacki (born August 22, 1979) is an American political journalist, writer, and television presenter. Kornacki is a national political correspondent for NBC News. He has written articles for ''Salon'', ''The New York Observer'', ...
– National Political Correspondent
*
Courtney Kube
Courtney is a name of Old French origin, introduced into England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It has two quite distinct interpretations: firstly, the surname may be locational, from places called Courtenay in the regions of Loiret and Gât ...
– Pentagon Correspondent
* Josh Lederman – Climate Policy Correspondent
* Carol Lee – White House Correspondent
*
Josh Mankiewicz
Joshua Paul "Josh" Mankiewicz (born August 27, 1955) is an American journalist, who has been reporting for ''Dateline NBC'' since 1995. He has reported for ''The Today Show'' and ''NBC Nightly News'' with Brian Williams, and '' Sunday Night with ...
– ''Dateline NBC'' Correspondent
*
Cynthia McFadden
Cynthia McFadden (born May 27, 1956) is an American television journalist who is currently the senior legal and investigative correspondent for NBC News. She was an anchor and correspondent for ABC News who co-anchored '' Nightline'', and occasio ...
– Senior Legal and Investigative Correspondent
* Erin McLaughlin – Correspondent
*
Mike Memoli – White House Correspondent
*
Keith Morrison
Keith Morrison (born July 2, 1947) is a Canadian broadcast journalist. Since 1995, he has been a correspondent for ''Dateline NBC''.
Career
Beginning his career in the 1960s, Morrison was a reporter and anchor at local stations in Saskatchew ...
– ''Dateline NBC'' Correspondent
*
Dennis Murphy Dennis Murphy may refer to:
*Dennis Murphy (Canadian politician) (1842–1917), Canadian businessman and political figure from Ontario
*Dennis Murphy (equestrian) (born 1944), American Olympic equestrian
*Dennis Murphy (journalist) (born 1946 or 19 ...
– ''Dateline NBC'' Correspondent
*
Kelly O'Donnell
Kelly O'Donnell (born May 17, 1965) is an American journalist. She is a political reporter for NBC News as White House and Capitol Hill correspondent. She appears on ''NBC Nightly News'', ''Today'', ''Meet The Press'', and MSNBC.
Background
O ...
– White House Correspondent
* Steve Patterson – Los Angeles-based correspondent
* Kathy Park – New York-based correspondent
*
Kerry Sanders
Kerry Sanders is an American journalist. He is a correspondent for NBC News.[Gadi Schwartz
Gadi Schwartz (born July 18, 1983) is an American journalist working as an NBC News host and correspondent. He is the co-host of ''Stay Tuned'', an NBC News program broadcast on Snapchat's Discover platform, ''Stay Tuned Now'' on NBC News Now, ...]
– Correspondent, Host for ''Stay Tuned'' and ''The Overview''
* Deepa Shivaram – Reporter
*
Harry Smith – Senior Correspondent
*
Jacob Soboroff
Jacob Hirsch Soboroff (born March 27, 1983) is an American journalist. He is known as a correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. Prior to his debut on the network in September 2015, he was the host of ''YouTube Nation'' and a co-host of '' TakePart ...
– Correspondent
*
Anne Thompson – Chief Environmental Affairs Correspondent
* Dr. John Torres – Senior Medical Correspondent
* Guad Vanegas – Los Angeles-based correspondent
*
Ali Vitali – Capitol Hill Correspondent
*
Jacob Ward
Jacob Ward (born 1974) is an American science and technology journalist. In 2018, he became a technology correspondent for NBC News, reporting on technology's social implications. He was the editor-in-chief of ''Popular Science'', and from 2013 t ...
– Technology Correspondent (2018–present)
*
Pete Williams – Justice Correspondent (1993–present) Retiring July 2022
*
Brandy Zadrozny
Brandy Zadrozny (born August 30, 1980) is an American investigative journalist and reporter with NBC News who specialises in Radicalization, political radicalization, extremism and disinformation on the Internet.
Early life and education
Before ...
– Investigative Journalist
International correspondents and reporters
*
Ali Arouzi – Tehran-based correspondent
* Matt Bradley – London-based Correspondent
* Kelly Cobiella – London-based Correspondent
*
Richard Engel
Richard Engel (born September 16, 1973) is an American journalist and author who is the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News. He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008 after serving as the network's Middle East correspondent and ...
– Chief Foreign Correspondent
* Molly Hunter – London-based Foreign Correspondent
*
Janis Mackey Frayer
Janis Mackey Frayer (born May 27, 1970) is a Canadian journalist and a correspondent with NBC News based in Beijing, China. Previously she worked in Canada with CTV as its Asia Bureau Chief. She was the network's Middle East Bureau Chief in J ...
– Beijing-based Foreign Correspondent
*
Keir Simmons
Keir Hardie Brennan-Simmons (born 22 February 1972) is an English journalist. He has been the senior international correspondent for the NBC morning show ''Today'' since December 2018. He also appears regularly on the evening broadcast ''NBC Ni ...
– Senior International Correspondent
Contributors and analysts
* Dr. Natalie Azar – Medical Contributor
*
Mike Barnicle
Michael Barnicle (born October 13, 1943) is an American print and broadcast journalist, and a social and political commentator. He is a senior contributor and the veteran columnist on MSNBC's '' Morning Joe''. He is also seen on NBC's ''Today Sh ...
– MSNBC's ''
Morning Joe'' Contributor
*
Jeremy Bash
Jeremy B. Bash (born August 13, 1971) is an American lawyer. He was the chief of staff at the Central Intelligence Agency (2009–2011) and the U.S. Department of Defense (2011–2013) under President Barack Obama. As a senior advisor to Leon Pan ...
– Senior National Security Analyst
*
Lisa Bloom
Lisa Read Bloom ( née Bray; born September 20, 1961) is an American attorney known for advising Harvey Weinstein amid various sexual abuse allegations, and for representing women whose sexual harassment claims precipitated the firing of Bill ...
– Legal Analyst
*
Jean Chatzky
Jean Sherman Chatzky (born September 7, 1964) is an American journalist, a personal finance columnist, financial editor of NBC’s ''TODAY'' show, AARP’s personal finance ambassador, and the founder and CEO of the multimedia company HerMoney.
E ...
– ''
Today
Today (archaically to-day) may refer to:
* Day of the present, the time that is perceived directly, often called ''now''
* Current era, present
* The current calendar date
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''Today'' (1930 film), a 1930 ...
'' Financial Editor
* Dr.
Vin Gupta– Medical Contributor
*
Steve Schmidt – NBC News Senior Political Analyst & MSNBC Contributor
*
Maria Shriver
Maria Owings Shriver (born November 6, 1955)
is an American journalist, author, a member of the Kennedy family, former First Lady of California, and the founder of the nonprofit organization The Women's Alzheimer's Movement. She was married to ...
– Special Anchor & Correspondent
*
Bret Stephens
Bret Louis Stephens (born November 21, 1973) is an American conservative journalist, editor, and columnist. He began working as an opinion columnist for ''The New York Times'' in April 2017 and as a senior contributor to NBC News in June 2017.
...
– Senior Political Contributor
*
Meredith Vieira
Meredith Louise Vieira (born December 30, 1953) is an American broadcast journalist and television personality. She is best known as the original moderator of the daytime talk show '' The View'' (1997–2006), the original host of the syndicated ...
– Special Correspondent (2006–present)
Former staff
*
Elie Abel
Elie Abel (October 17, 1920 – July 22, 2004) was a Canadian- American journalist, author and academic.
Early life
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Abel received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in 1941 and a Master of Science in journ ...
(State Department Correspondent) (1961–1970) +
*
Bob Abernethy
Robert Gordon Abernethy (November 5, 1927 – May 2, 2021) was an American journalist, best known for serving various roles during a 42-year career with NBC News. He later co-created, and was executive editor and host of '' Religion & Ethics New ...
(1952–1994)+
*
Dan Abrams
Daniel Abrams (born May 20, 1966) is an American media entrepreneur, television host, legal commentator, and author. He is currently the host of the prime-time show ''Dan Abrams Live'' on NewsNation, ''On Patrol: Live'' on Reelz and ''The Dan Ab ...
(Chief Legal Analyst) – now at
ABC News
ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ''ABC World News Tonight, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include Breakfast television, morning ...
*
Stephanie Abrams
Stephanie Abrams (born October 27, 1978) is an American television meteorologist who has worked for The Weather Channel (TWC) since 2003. She currently co-hosts '' AMHQ'' with Jen Carfagno and Jim Cantore early weekday mornings.
She is also empl ...
– now at
The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel (TWC) is an American pay television channel owned by Weather Group, LLC, a subsidiary of Allen Media Group. The channel's headquarters are in Atlanta, Georgia. Launched on May 2, 1982, the channel broadcasts weather forecas ...
*
Martin Agronsky
Martin Zama Agronsky ( ; January 12, 1915 – July 25, 1999), also known as Martin Agronski, was an American journalist, political analyst, and television host. He began his career in 1936 working under his uncle, Gershon Agron, at the ''Palest ...
(Foreign Correspondent) +
*
(Anchor,
MSNBC
MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and politi ...
and ''
Weekend Today
''Weekend Today'' is currently the branding of the weekend editions of ''Today'', an American morning news and talk program that airs daily on NBC. Weekend editions of ''Today'', began with the launch of the Sunday edition of the program on Sep ...
'')
*
Tom Aspell
Tom Aspell (1950 – February 11, 2013) was a New Zealand-born U.S. television news producer, foreign correspondent, and cameraman. He was employed by NBC News for 28 years and previously worked for ABC News, CBS News, and Visnews.
Care ...
+
*
Jim Avila (Correspondent) – now with
ABC News
ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ''ABC World News Tonight, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include Breakfast television, morning ...
*
Martin Bashir
Martin Henry Bashir (born 19 January 1963) is a British journalist. He was a presenter on British and American television and for the BBC's ''Panorama'' programme, for which he interviewed Diana, Princess of Wales in 1995. Although the intervie ...
(later MSNBC's ''
Martin Bashir
Martin Henry Bashir (born 19 January 1963) is a British journalist. He was a presenter on British and American television and for the BBC's ''Panorama'' programme, for which he interviewed Diana, Princess of Wales in 1995. Although the intervie ...
'' Anchor & ''Dateline NBC'' Correspondent)
*
Robert Bazell (Chief Science & Health Correspondent) – now an adjunct professor at
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
*
Geoff Bennett – now at
PBS NewsHour
''PBS NewsHour'' is an American evening television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virg ...
*
Jim Bittermann – now at
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
*
Frank Blair (Today Show News Anchor) +
*
David Bloom
David Jerome Bloom (May 22, 1963 – April 6, 2003) was an American television journalist (co-anchor of ''Weekend Today'' and reporter) until his sudden death in 2003 after a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) became a pulmonary embolism.
Early an ...
(Correspondent and
Weekend Today
''Weekend Today'' is currently the branding of the weekend editions of ''Today'', an American morning news and talk program that airs daily on NBC. Weekend editions of ''Today'', began with the launch of the Sunday edition of the program on Sep ...
) +
*
Mike Boettcher
Mike Boettcher (born 1954) is an American journalist and war correspondent. He is often embedded in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Oklahoma. Reporting from Key West, Florida on June 1, 1980 about the M ...
*
Frank Bourgholtzer – first full-time NBC
White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800. ...
Correspondent +
*
David Brinkley
David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.
From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top-rated nightly news program, '' The Huntley–Brinkl ...
(1952–1981)+
*
Tom Brokaw
Thomas John Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940) is an American retired network television journalist and author. 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 '' ...
(anchor/correspondent; 1966–2021) (now retired)
*
Ned Brooks
Ned Brooks (died April 13, 1969) was an American television and radio journalist who was moderator of NBC's ''Meet the Press'' on television from 1953 until 1965, and earlier on radio. Brooks is the second-longest tenured moderator of the program ...
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*
Campbell Brown
*
Christina Brown
*
Erin Burnett
Erin Isabelle Burnett (born July 2, 1976) is an American news anchor, currently the anchor of ''Erin Burnett OutFront'' on CNN. She previously worked for CNBC as co-anchor of ''Squawk on the Street'' and the host of ''Street Signs''. Burnett has ...
– now at
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
*
Billy Bush
William Hall Bush (born October 13, 1971) is an American radio and television host. He is a member of the Bush family, a nephew of President George H. W. Bush and cousin of President George W. Bush and Florida governor Jeb Bush.
After appearin ...
– fired due to the aftermath of
sexual allegations about Donald Trump – now at ''
Extra
Extra or Xtra may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media Film
* ''The Extra'' (1962 film), a Mexican film
* ''The Extra'' (2005 film), an Australian film
Literature
* ''Extra'' (newspaper), a Brazilian newspaper
* ''Extra!'', an American me ...
''
*
Henry Champ
Stephen Henry Champ (12 July 1937 – 23 September 2012) was a veteran Canadian broadcast journalist, working for CTV News, NBC News and CBC News.
Champ was born in Brandon, Manitoba, and studied arts at Brandon University in 1957 and 1958 (h ...
+
*
John Chancellor
John William Chancellor (July 14, 1927 – July 12, 1996) was an American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News. He is considered a pioneer in TV news. He served as anchor of the ''NBC Nightly News'' from 1970 to 1982 and continu ...
(1956–1964; 1968–1993) +
*
Connie Chung
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung (born August 20, 1946) is an American journalist. She has been an anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bülow ...
– retired
*
Chris Cimino
Chris Cimino (born April 27, 1961) is a meteorologist on WPIX "New York's very own" early morning show 4AM-6AM. Chris also hosts New York Living, a new lifestyle show on WPIX.
Chris was the meteorologist on WNBC television's early-morning news p ...
+
*
Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is an American writer and global health advocate. She is the only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ...
– left to focus on the
Clinton Foundation
The Clinton Foundation (founded in 2001 as the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation, and renamed in 2013 as the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation) is a nonprofit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. tax code. It was e ...
*
Ned Colt +
*
Kevin Corke
*
Katie Couric
Katherine Anne Couric ( ; born January 7, 1957) is an American journalist and presenter. She is founder of Katie Couric Media, a multimedia news and production company. She also publishes a daily newsletter, ''Wake Up Call''. From 2013 to 2017, ...
(1989–2006)
*
Ann Curry
Ann Curry (born November 19, 1956) is an American journalist and photojournalist, who has been a reporter for more than 30 years, focused on human suffering in war zones and natural disasters. Curry has reported from the wars in Kosovo, Iraq, S ...
*
Lloyd Dobyns +
*
Phil Donahue
Phillip John Donahue (born December 21, 1935) is an American media personality, writer, film producer and the creator and host of ''The Phil Donahue Show''. The television program, later known simply as ''Donahue'', was the first talk show forma ...
*
Bob Dotson
Robert Charles "Bob" Dotson (born October 3, 1946) is a ''New York Times'' best selling American author, teacher and television journalist. His long-running series, "The American Story with Bob Dotson," was a regular feature on NBC's ''Today'' ...
– retired
*
Hugh Downs
Hugh Malcolm Downs (February 14, 1921July 1, 2020) was an American radio and television broadcaster, announcer and programmer; television host; news anchor; TV producer; author; game show host; talk show sidekick; and music composer. A regular t ...
+
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Paul Duke
Paul Welden Duke (October 16, 1926 — July 18, 2005) was an American newspaper, radio and television journalist, best known for his 20-year stint as moderator of '' Washington Week in Review'' on PBS.
A native of Richmond, Virginia, Duke ...
+
*
Rosey Edeh
Rosey Edeh (born August 16, 1966) is a Canadian television personality, who was a news anchor for ''Global News at Noon'' on Global Toronto and senior reporter for ''ET Canada''. She is currently C.E.O. of Micha Muse Media and has directed her de ...
*
Linda Ellerbee (retired)
*
Josh Elliott
Josh Elliott is an American television journalist who most recently worked for CBS News. He has previously worked as the news anchor for ABC's ''Good Morning America'', a sports anchor for NBC Sports and ''Today'', and was a co-anchor for the l ...
*
Bonnie Erbe
Bonnie, is a Scottish given name and is sometimes used as a descriptive reference, as in the Scottish folk song, My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean. It comes from the Scots language word "bonnie" (pretty, attractive), or the French bonne (good). That ...
*
Bob Faw
Bob, BOB, or B.O.B. may refer to:
Places
*Mount Bob, New York, United States
*Bob Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica
People, fictional characters, and named animals
* Bob (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
*Bob (surname ...
*
Giselle Fernández
Giselle Fernández (born May 15, 1961) is an American television journalist and anchor for Spectrum News 1. Her appearances on network television include reporting and guest anchoring for ''CBS Early Show'', ''CBS Evening News'', ''Today'', and ...
*
Martin Fletcher
Martin Fletcher (born 7 July 1956) is former associate editor and former foreign editor of ''The Times'' in London. He was named feature writer of the year in the 2015 British Press Awards.
Biography
Fletcher was educated at Uppingham School ...
– Foreign Correspondent
*
Jack Ford – now chief legal analyst at
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the ''CBS Evening News'', ''CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 48 H ...
*
Eliot Frankel +
*
Michelle Franzen
Michelle Renee Franzen (born August 30, 1968) is a New York-based midday anchor for ABC News Radio. From 2001 to 2013 she was a national correspondent for NBC News. She has reported on a wide range of issues and events for various television st ...
– now at
ABC News
ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ''ABC World News Tonight, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include Breakfast television, morning ...
*
Dawn Fratangelo
*
Stephen Frazier
*
Pauline Frederick
Pauline Frederick (born Pauline Beatrice Libbey, August 12, 1883 – September 19, 1938) was an American stage and film actress.
Early life
Frederick was born Pauline Beatrice Libbey (later changed to Libby) in Boston in 1883 (some sources stat ...
+
*
Dawna Friesen
Dawna Friesen is a Canadian television journalist, currently the chief anchor and executive editor of ''Global National''.L. ScrivenerDawna Friesen: From shy prairie girl to Global News anchor ''Toronto Star'', September 20, 2010. She was previ ...
(1999–2010) – now Anchor for Canada's Global TV's Global National
*
Betty Furness
Elizabeth Mary Furness (January 3, 1916 – April 2, 1994) was an American actress, consumer advocate, and current affairs commentator.
Early years
Furness was born in Manhattan, the daughter of wealthy business executive George Choate Furness ...
+
*
Joe Garagiola
Joseph Henry Garagiola Sr. (February 12, 1926 – March 23, 2016) was an American professional baseball catcher, later an announcer and television host, popular for his colorful personality.
Garagiola played nine seasons in Major League Basebal ...
+
*
Anne Garrels
Anne Longworth Garrels (July 2, 1951 – September 7, 2022) was an American broadcast journalist who worked as a foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, as well as for ABC and NBC, and other media.Engle, Jane"From Beijing to Baghdad, ...
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*
Damien Garcia (News Division Production Specialist, Global Mobile Computing)
*
Dave Garroway
David Cunningham Garroway (July 13, 1913 – July 21, 1982) was an American television personality. He was the founding host and anchor of NBC's ''Today'' from 1952 to 1961. His easygoing and relaxing style belied a lifelong battle with depressi ...
+
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Kathie Lee Gifford
Kathryn Lee Gifford (née Epstein; born August 16, 1953) is an American television presenter, singer, songwriter, actress and author. From 1985 to 2000, she and Regis Philbin hosted the talk show ''Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee''. Gifford is a ...
– Left ''Today'' to focus on producing
*
Alexis Glick
Alexis Glick (born Alexis Cahill Donnelly; August 7, 1972) is an American television personality who was an anchor of ''Money for Breakfast'' and ''The Opening Bell'' on Fox Business, as well as the Vice President of Business News. She left the ...
*
Robert Goralski +
*
Peter Greenberg
Peter S. Greenberg (born January 20) is an American journalist. He is the CBS News Travel Editor, reporting regularly on ''The Early Show'', its replacement ''CBS This Morning'', and the ''CBS Evening News''. He may be best known as the Travel ...
(Travel Editor, "Today") – now at
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the ''CBS Evening News'', ''CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 48 H ...
*
David Gregory
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Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Charles Gumbel (born September 29, 1948) is an American television journalist and sportscaster, best known for his 15 years as co-host of NBC's ''Today''. He is the younger brother of sportscaster Greg Gumbel. Since 1995, he has hosted H ...
(1981–1997) – now host of HBO Sports' Real Sports
*
Tony Guida
Tony Guida (born November 5, 1941) is a New York-based local television and radio personality. He is currently a news anchor for WCBS Newsradio 880 and a business correspondent for CBS News.
Life and career
Guida began his career working as a re ...
– now at
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the ''CBS Evening News'', ''CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 48 H ...
*
Robert Hager Robert Hager is an analyst and a former correspondent for the US television network NBC News. Hager started his journalism career in radio before moving to network news. He began his work at NBC in June 1969, covering the Vietnam War. He worked as a ...
(1969–2004) – retired from journalism
*
Sara Haines
Sara Hilary Haines (born September 18, 1977) is an American television host and journalist. She is known as a co-host of the ABC daytime talk shows '' The View'' and ''Strahan, Sara and Keke'' and game show '' The Chase''. She has also worked as ...
– now at
ABC News
ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ''ABC World News Tonight, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include Breakfast television, morning ...
*
Tamron Hall
Tamron Hall (born September 16, 1970) is an American broadcast journalist and television talk show host. In September 2019, Hall debuted her self-titled syndicated daytime talk show, which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award. Hall was formerly a n ...
– Former ''Today's Take'' co-host, ''MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall'' anchor & NBC News correspondent
*
Mark Halperin
Mark Evan Halperin (born January 11, 1965)Mark Halperin. ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Biography In Context. is an American journalist, currently a host and commentator for Newsmax TV. Halperin previously worked as ...
– fired due to inappropriate sexual behavior
*
Steve Handelsman – retired
*
Chris Hansen
Christopher Edward Hansen (born September 13, 1959) is an American television journalist and YouTube personality. He is known for his work on ''Dateline NBC'', in particular the former segment ''To Catch a Predator'', which revolved around catc ...
*
Nanette Hansen +
*
Richard C. Harkness +
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Sarah Harman
*
Don Harris +
*
John Hart
*
Jim Hartz
James Leroy Hartz (February 3, 1940 – April 17, 2022) was an American television personality, columnist and reporter during the mid- and late-1970s. At age 24, he was the youngest correspondent NBC had ever hired. Hartz became best known to a nat ...
+
*
James Hattori
*
John Hockenberry
John Charles Hockenberry (born June 4, 1956) is an American journalist and author. He has reported from all over the world, on a wide variety of stories in several mediums for more than three decades. He has written dozens of magazine and newsp ...
*
Chet Huntley
Chet is a masculine given name, often a nickname for Chester, which means ''fortress'' or ''camp''. It is an uncommon name of English origin, and originated as a surname to identify people from the city of Chester, England. Chet was ranked 1,027t ...
+
*
Kasie Hunt
Kasie Sue Hunt (born May 24, 1985) is an American political correspondent for CNN. From 2013 to 2021, she was NBC News' Capitol Hill correspondent, covering Congress across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms, and was the host of MSNBC's ''Way Too ...
– now at
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
*
Gwen Ifill
Gwendolyn L. Ifill ( ; September 29, 1955 – November 14, 2016) was an American journalist, television newscaster, and author. In 1999, she became the first African-American woman to host a nationally televised U.S. public affairs program ...
+
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Michael Isikoff
Michael Isikoff (born June 16, 1952) is an American investigative journalist who is currently the Chief Investigative Correspondent at Yahoo! News. He is the co-author with David Corn of the book titled '' Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Pu ...
*
Bob Jamieson
Robert John Jamieson is an American former television news correspondent for ABC News until January 2008. After getting his start in local news in St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis and Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, he joined NBC's national news bureau ...
– retired from journalism
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Kristine Johnson
Kristine Johnson (born June 5, 1972, in Angeles City, Philippines), is a co-anchor at WCBS-TV in New York City on the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts with Maurice DuBois.
Early life and education
Johnson was born in the Philippines, the daughter o ...
– now at WCBS-TV
*
Rosalind Jordan – now at
Al Jazeera English
Al Jazeera English (AJE; ar, الجزيرة, translit=al-jazīrah, , literally "The Peninsula", referring to the Qatar Peninsula) is an international 24-hour English-language news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, which is own ...
*
Bernard Kalb
Bernard Kalb (born February 4, 1922) is an American journalist, moderator, media critic, lecturer, and author.
Life and career
Born in New York City, he covered international affairs for more than three decades at CBS News, NBC News and '' The ...
*
Marvin Kalb
Marvin Leonard Kalb (born June 9, 1930) is an American journalist. Kalb was the founding director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. The Shor ...
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Floyd Kalber
Floyd Kalber (December 23, 1924 – May 13, 2004) was an American television journalist and anchorman, nicknamed "The Big Tuna."
Life and career
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he spent two years in the army during World War II and began his television ...
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Megyn Kelly
Megyn Marie Kelly (; born November 18, 1970) is an American journalist and media personality. She currently hosts a talk show and podcast, ''The Megyn Kelly Show'', that airs live daily on SiriusXM. She was a talk show host at Fox News from 200 ...
– ''
Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly'' host and ''
Megyn Kelly Today'' host
*
Arthur Kent
Arthur Kent (born December 27, 1953) is a Canadian television journalist and author. He rose to international prominence during the 1991 Persian Gulf War during which he acquired the nickname "The Scud Stud". He is the brother of Canada's forme ...
*
Douglas Kiker +
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Emory King
Emory King (February 22, 1931, Jacksonville, Florida, United States – August 14, 2007) was a Belizean historian, author, and journalist. He served the nation of Belize in a number of capacities, including as National Film Commissioner.
Trav ...
*
Dan Kloeffler
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Michelle Kosinski
Michelle Kosinski is an American journalist, host, and public speaker. She most recently wrote and hosted the podcast ''The Perfect Scam''. Previously she was a Senior Diplomatic Correspondent for CNN and White House Correspondent for CNN until 2 ...
(2005–2014)
*
Bob Kur (1976–2006)
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Margaret Larson
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Matt Lauer
Matthew Todd Lauer (; born December 30, 1957) is an American former television news personality, best known for his work with NBC News. After serving as a local news personality in New York City on WNBC, his first national exposure was as the ne ...
– ''Today'' co-anchor & ''Dateline NBC'' contributing anchor and correspondent (1992–2017) – fired due to inappropriate sexual behavior
*
Jack Lescoulie
Jack Lescoulie (November 17, 1912 – July 22, 1987) was a radio and television announcer and host, notably on NBC's ''Today'' during the 1950s and 1960s; a newspaper source lists his date of birth as May 17, 1912. Lescoulie was also known for h ...
(1952–1967) +
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Irving R. Levine +
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George Lewis George Lewis may refer to:
Entertainment and art
* George B. W. Lewis (1818–1906), circus rider and theatre manager in Australia
* George E. Lewis (born 1952), American composer and free jazz trombonist
* George J. Lewis (1903–1995), Mexica ...
– retired from journalism
*
Lilia Luciano
Lilia Luciano (born October 12, 1984) is a journalist, filmmaker, podcaster and public speaker. She is currently a national correspondent at CBS News based in New York and host of the iHeart Radio podcast, El Flow. Before moving to Los Angeles, ...
– now at
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the ''CBS Evening News'', ''CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 48 H ...
*
Bill Macatee
Bill Macatee (born November 17, 1955) is an American sports broadcaster for CBS Sports and Tennis Channel.
Early life and career
Macatee was born in Rome, New York, and grew up in El Paso, Texas. He graduated from Burges High School in El Paso. ...
*
Jim Maceda
James Maceda (born January 18, 1949) is a retired journalist, who was a foreign correspondent for NBC News based in London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdo ...
– special foreign correspondent
*
Cassie Mackin
Catherine Patricia "Cassie" Mackin (August 28, 1939 – November 20, 1982) was a pioneer woman journalist in United States television network In the early 1970s, she anchored a WRC-TV newscast and in 1972 became NBC's first female correspondent t ...
+
*
Robert MacNeil
Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC (born January 19, 1931) is a Canadian-American journalist and writer. He is a retired television news anchor who partnered with Jim Lehrer to create ''The MacNeil/Lehrer Report'' in 1975.
Early life and ed ...
– retired from journalism
*
Boyd Matson
Boyd Matson (born April 26, 1947) is the former anchor of ''National Geographic Explorer'' and a former co-anchor of NBC's '' Sunday Today'' program. He was also an NBC News correspondent in the 1980s, working mostly on news features and earlier ...
*
Chris Matthews
Christopher John Matthews (born December 17, 1945) is an American political commentator, retired talk show host, and author. Matthews hosted his weeknight hour-long talk show, ''Hardball with Chris Matthews'', on America's Talking and later on M ...
– retired from journalism, Former Host of Hardball with Chris Matthews
*
John MacVane
John Franklin MacVane (April 29, 1912 – January 28, 1984) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He gained prominence covering World War II in Europe for NBC News. Throughout the war he provided eyewitness radio repor ...
+
*
Frank McGee +
*
Sean McLaughlin +
*
Jennifer McLogan
*
Preston Mendenhall
Preston is a place name, surname and given name that may refer to:
Places
England
*Preston, Lancashire, an urban settlement
**The City of Preston, Lancashire, a borough and non-metropolitan district which contains the settlement
**County Boro ...
*
Jim Miklaszewski (1985–2016) – retired from journalism
*
Keith Miller
Keith Ross Miller (28 November 1919 – 11 October 2004) was an Australian Test cricketer and a Royal Australian Air Force pilot during World War II. Miller is widely regarded as Australia's greatest ever all-rounder. His ability, irreverent m ...
*
Bill Monroe
William Smith "Bill" Monroe (; September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter, who created the bluegrass music genre. Because of this, he is often called the " Father of Bluegrass".
The genre take ...
+
*
Natalie Morales – now host of ''
The Talk''
*
Ron Mott (2005–2020) – retired
*
Roger Mudd
Roger Harrison Mudd (February 9, 1928 – March 9, 2021) was an American broadcast journalist who was a correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News. He also worked as the primary anchor for The History Channel. Previously, Mudd was week ...
(1980–1986) +
*
Merrill Mueller +
*
Lisa Myers
Lisa Myers (born Joplin, Missouri) is an American journalist. She was the senior investigative correspondent for ''NBC Nightly News''.
A 1973 graduate of the University of Missouri's Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri, she joi ...
(1981–2014) – retired
*
Roy Neal
Roy Neal Hinkel (May 30, 1921 – August 15, 2003) was an American television correspondent for NBC News. An aerospace specialist, he reported live on the Apollo 11 landing. His newscast from that event was later published on LP by Evolution Reco ...
+
*
Bill Neely
*
Ron Nessen
Ronald Harold Nessen (born May 25, 1934) is an American government official who served as the 15th White House Press Secretary for President Gerald Ford from 1974 to 1977. He replaced Jerald terHorst, who resigned in the wake of President Ford's ...
– later
White House Press Secretary under
President Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected ...
, retired from journalism
*
Jackie Nespral
Jackie Nespral (born April 21, 1966) is an American television anchor for WTVJ, the NBC owned and operated station in Miami.
Early years and education
Nespral was born in Florida. both her parents are Cuban. She grew up in the Little Havana ar ...
(now main anchor with NBC O&O operated station
WTVJ
WTVJ (channel 6) is a television station in Miami, Florida, United States, airing programming from the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Fort Lauderdale–licensed WSCV (ch ...
in Miami)
*
Edwin Newman
Edwin Harold Newman (January 25, 1919 – August 13, 2010) was an American newscaster, journalist, and author. After beginning his career with the wire services and serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Newman worked in radio for CBS News ...
+
*
Hans Nichols – now at
Axios Axios commonly refers to:
* Axios (river), a river that runs through Greece and North Macedonia
* ''Axios'' (website), an American news and information website
Axios may also refer to:
Brands and enterprises
* Axios, a brand of suspension produ ...
*
Deborah Norville
Deborah Anne Norville (born August 8, 1958) is an American television journalist and businesswoman. Norville is the anchor of ''Inside Edition'', a syndicated television news magazine, a position she has held since March 6, 1995. She markets and ...
– now weekday host of ''
Inside Edition
''Inside Edition'' is an American news broadcasting newsmagazine program that is distributed in first-run syndication by CBS Media Ventures. Having premiered on January 9, 1989, it is the longest-running syndicated-newsmagazine program that is no ...
''
*
Soledad O'Brien
María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien (born September 19, 1966) is an American broadcast journalist and executive producer. Since 2016, O'Brien has been the host for ''Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien,'' a nationally syndicated weekly talk show ...
*
Norah O'Donnell
Norah Morahan O'Donnell (born January 23, 1974) is an American television journalist who is currently anchor of the ''CBS Evening News'' and a correspondent for ''60 Minutes''. She has worked with several mainstream media outlets throughout her ...
(NBC News Washington Correspondent & MSNBC Chief Washington Correspondent) – now at
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the ''CBS Evening News'', ''CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 48 H ...
*
Michael Okwu – now at
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle (; "German Wave" in English), abbreviated to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service con ...
*
Keith Olbermann
Keith Theodore Olbermann (; born January 27, 1959) is an American sports and political commentator and writer.
Olbermann spent the first 20 years of his career in sports journalism. He was a sports correspondent for CNN and for local TV and r ...
(Anchor, "Countdown with Keith Olbermann")
*
Don Oliver +
*
John Palmer John Palmer may refer to:
People
Politicians
* John Palmer (fl. 1377–1394), English politician
* Sir John Palmer, 5th Baronet (1735–1817), British politician
* John Palmer (1785–1840), U.S. congressman from New York
* John Palmer (1842–19 ...
+
*
Jane Pauley
Margaret Jane Pauley (born October 31, 1950) is an American television host, and author, active in news reporting since 1972. Pauley first became widely known as Barbara Walters's successor on the NBC morning show ''Today'', beginning at the age ...
(now at
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the ''CBS Evening News'', ''CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 48 H ...
)
*
Jack Perkins +
*
Tom Pettit +
*
Stone Phillips
Stone Stockton Phillips (born December 2, 1954) is an American television reporter and correspondent. He is best known as the former co-anchor of ''Dateline NBC'', a news magazine TV series. He also has worked as a substitute anchor for ''NBC N ...
*
Mark Potter
*
Gabe Pressman
Gabriel Stanley "Gabe" Pressman (February 14, 1924 – June 23, 2017) was an American journalist who was a reporter for WNBC-TV in New York City for more than 60 years. His career spanned more than seven decades; the events he covered included th ...
+
*
Norma Quarles
Norma Quarles (born November 11, 1936) is an American television reporter and anchor. She worked for NBC, CNN and PBS during her career.
Early life
Quarles was born in New York City in 1936 into a Trinidadian family. Her father worked at Macy's i ...
*
Charles Quinn +
*
Jacob Rascon
Jacob Rascon is an American journalist and a reporter for KTRK-TV in Houston, after moving from competitor station, the NBC affiliate KPRC-TV. Rascon is the son of former news anchor Art Rascon who worked for KTRK-TV from 1998 to 2022, when he ste ...
– now at
KTRK-TV
KTRK-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, airing programming from the ABC network. Owned and operated by the network's ABC Owned Television Stations division, the station maintains studios on Bissonnet Street ...
in Houston
*
Jill Rappaport
Jill Rappaport (born September 27, 1956) is an American journalist, animal advocate, and author. She has reported for ''The Today Show'' for over 22-years as well as ''NBC Nightly News'' and NBC affiliates. She was the creator, host, and exec ...
*
Chip Reid – now at
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the ''CBS Evening News'', ''CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 48 H ...
*
John Rich
John Rich (born January 7, 1974) is an American country music singer-songwriter. From 1992 to 1998, he was a member of the country music band Lonestar, in which he played bass guitar and alternated with Richie McDonald as lead vocalist. After d ...
+
*
Amy Robach
Amy Joanne Robach (born February 6, 1973) is an American television reporter for ABC News. She is the co-anchor of ''20/20'' and the breaking news anchor/fill-in anchor for '' Good Morning America''. She was a national correspondent for NBC N ...
– now at
ABC News
ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast ''ABC World News Tonight, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include Breakfast television, morning ...
*
Betty Rollin
Betty Rollin (born January 3, 1936, in New York City) has been an NBC News correspondent and author.
Rollin's reports have won both the DuPont and Emmy awards. She now contributes reports for PBS's Religion and Ethics News Weekly.
Rollin is a gr ...
*
Brian Ross
*
Ford Rowan +
*
Tim Russert
Timothy John Russert (May 7, 1950 – June 13, 2008) was an American television journalist and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's ''Meet the Press''. He was a senior vice president at NBC News, Wa ...
+
*
Bill Ryan +
*
Aline Saarinen +
*
Charles Sabine
Charles Edward Sabine (born 20 April 1960, British Army Battalion HQ, Rinteln
Rinteln () is a small town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the banks of the Weser river above the Porta Westfalica. The town of Rinteln is in the broad v ...
*
Martin Savidge
Martin "The Savage" Savidge (born May 27, 1958) is a Canadian-American television news correspondent.
Savidge worked for NBC News and was a special correspondent and former anchor for public television's '' Worldfocus'' nightly news program in t ...
– now at
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by ...
*
Jessica Savitch
Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 – October 23, 1983) was an American television journalist, best known for being the weekend anchor of ''NBC Nightly News'' and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Savi ...
+
*
Chuck Scarborough
Charles Bishop Scarborough III (born November 4, 1943) is an American television journalist and author. Since 1974, he has been the lead news anchor at WNBC, the New York City flagship station of the NBC Television Network, and has also appeared ...
– now at
WNBC
WNBC (channel 4) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the NBC network. It is owned and operated by the network's NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside Linden, New Jersey–licensed Telemundo stati ...
Channel 4 in
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...
*
Bill Schechner
*
Mike Schneider – now at NJTV
*
Willard Scott
Willard Herman Scott Jr. (March 7, 1934 – September 4, 2021) was an American weather presenter, radio and television personality, actor, narrator, clown, comedian, and author, whose broadcast career spanned 68 years, 65 years with the NBC br ...
– +
*
John Seigenthaler
John Lawrence Seigenthaler ( ; July 27, 1927 – July 11, 2014) was an American journalist, writer, and political figure. He was known as a prominent defender of First Amendment rights.
Seigenthaler joined the Nashville newspaper ''The ...
*
Scott Simon
Scott Simon (born March 16, 1952) is an American journalist and the host of ''Weekend Edition Saturday'' on NPR.
Early life
Simon was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of comedian Ernie Simon and actress Patricia Lyons.[ ...]
(now with
NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. It differs from other ...
)
*
Gene Shalit
Eugene Shalit (born March 25, 1926) is an American retired journalist, television personality, Film criticism, film and Literary criticism, book critic and author. After starting to work part-time on NBC's ''Today (American TV program), The Toda ...
– retired
*
Claire Shipman
Claire Shipman is an American television journalist, currently the senior national correspondent for ABC's ''Good Morning America''. She is married to Jay Carney, President Barack Obama's former White House Press Secretary. She is also Vice Ch ...
*
Maria Shriver
Maria Owings Shriver (born November 6, 1955)
is an American journalist, author, a member of the Kennedy family, former First Lady of California, and the founder of the nonprofit organization The Women's Alzheimer's Movement. She was married to ...
*
Lynn Smith
Lynn Marie Smith is a media consultant and former news anchor. She previously worked with HLN having anchored '' Weekend Express''. She was later named the host of ''On The Story'' in March 2019.
Early life
Smith graduated from Miami University ...
– now at
HLN
*
Lawrence E. Spivak +
*
John Cameron Swayze +
*
Dr. Nancy Snyderman
*
Don Teague
*
Patricia Thompson +
*
Kevin Tibbles
Kevin () is the anglicized form of the Irish masculine given name (; mga, Caoimhghín ; sga, Cóemgein ; Latinized as ). It is composed of "dear; noble"; Old Irish and ("birth"; Old Irish ).
The variant ''Kevan'' is anglicized from , an ...
(1995–2022)
*
Liz Trotta
*
Thanh Truong
*
Lem Tucker +
*
Garrick Utley
Clifton Garrick Utley (November 19, 1939 – February 20, 2014) was an American television journalist. He established his career reporting about the Vietnam War and has the distinction of being the first full-time television correspondent coverin ...
+
*
Richard Valeriani Richard Valeriani (August 29, 1932 – June 18, 2018) was an American journalist who was a White House correspondent and diplomatic correspondent with NBC News in the 1960s and 1970s.
He previously covered the Civil Rights Movement for the network ...
+
*
Charles Van Doren
Charles Lincoln Van Doren (February 12, 1926 – April 9, 2019) was an American writer and editor who was involved in a television quiz show scandal in the 1950s. In 1959 he testified before the U.S. Congress that he had been given the corr ...
+
*
Sander Vanocur +
*
Linda Vester
Linda Vester (born June 11, 1965, in Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American television news host. She was the anchor of ''NBC News at Sunrise'' on NBC and ''DaySide with Linda Vester'' on the Fox News. She left television in 2005 to raise h ...
*
Mike Viqueira (White House & Capitol Hill Correspondent)
*
Lindsey Vonn
Lindsey Caroline Vonn ( ; born October 18, 1984) is an American former World Cup alpine ski racer on the US Ski Team. She won four World Cup overall championships — second only amongst female skiers to Annemarie Moser-Pröll — with three ...
(
2014 Winter Olympics
, ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'')
, nations = 88
, events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines)
, athletes = 2,873
, opening = 7 February 2014
, closing = 23 February 2014
, opened_by = President Vladimir Putin
, cauldron =
, stadium = Fisht Olympic ...
correspondent)
*
Alex Wagner
Alexandra Swe Wagner (born November 27, 1977) is an American journalist. She is the host of both ''Alex Wagner Tonight ''on MSNBC and Netflix's '' The Mole'' reboot, as well as the author of ''FutureFace: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and th ...
*
Chris Wallace
Christopher Wallace (born October 12, 1947) is an American broadcast journalist. He is known for his tough and wide-ranging interviews, for which he is often compared to his father, ''60 Minutes'' journalist Mike Wallace. Over his 50-year care ...
– (later at
Fox News
The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owne ...
, now at CNN.)
*
Barbara Walters
Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American broadcast journalist and television personality. Known for her interviewing ability and popularity with viewers, Walters appeared as a host of numerous television programs, including ...
– retired from journalism
*
Fredricka Whitfield
Fredricka Whitfield (born May 31, 1965) is an American journalist and news anchor. She anchors the weekend edition of ''CNN Newsroom'' from CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, and she is also a fill-in and substitute anchor for CNN's At This Hou ...
– now at CNN
*
Brian Williams (1993–2021)
*
Colleen Williams
Colleen Ann Williams (born March 6, 1955) is an American journalist. She is a news anchor of KNBC Channel 4 in Los Angeles, currently serving on the 5 and 11 p.m. weekday broadcasts. She also reports on occasion for NBC News and MSNBC. William ...
– now at KNBC
*
Mary Alice Williams
Mary Alice Williams (born March 12, 1949) is a former co-anchor of NBC's ''Weekend Today'' and a former anchor and news division Vice President on CNN. She most recently served as the anchor of NJTV News on New Jersey's public television networ ...
*
Brad Willis
*
Joe Witte
Joe Witte (born 1943) is currently an Outreach Specialist for Aquent, a contractor of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA. He adapts science content for use by 2,000 television meteorologists around the country.
Joe Witte started his career as a gla ...
– (later at
CNBC
CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American basic cable business news channel. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time, while broadcasting talk sho ...
, and
WJLA-TV
WJLA-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Washington, D.C., affiliated with ABC. It is one of two flagship stations of Sinclair Broadcast Group (alongside dual Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate WBFF hannel 45in Baltimore), and is also sister to ...
; now a researcher at the
Goddard Spaceflight Center
The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States. Established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center, GSFC empl ...
)
*
Jenna Wolfe
*
Lew Wood +
*
Judy Woodruff
Judy Carline Woodruff (born November 20, 1946) is an American broadcast journalist who has worked in network, cable, and public television news since 1976. She is the anchor and managing editor of ''PBS NewsHour''. Woodruff has covered every presi ...
– now Monday–Friday anchor of
PBS NewsHour
''PBS NewsHour'' is an American evening television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virg ...
*
Tony Zappone
Tony Zappone (born Anthony N. Zappone on October 9, 1947, in Tampa, Florida), became at age 16 the youngest credentialed journalist to lend press coverage to a major national political convention. He was also the youngest contributor of evid ...
+ – deceased
International broadcasts
MSNBC is not shown outside the Americas on a channel in its own right. However, both NBC News and MSNBC are shown for a few hours a day on
OSN News
OSN News is a 24-hour satellite channel offering exclusively American news programming from NBC, and MSNBC to U.S. expatriates, primarily geared towards an audience in the Arab countries. The channel is available on OSN Network in Middle East ...
in
MENA
MENA, an acronym in the English language, refers to a grouping of countries situated in and around the Middle East and North Africa. It is also known as WANA, SWANA, or NAWA, which alternatively refers to the Middle East as Western Asia (or a ...
Region.
In the 2000s MSNBC was shown on sister network
CNBC Europe
Consumer News and Business Channel Europe (referred to on air simply as CNBC) is a business and financial news television channel which airs across Europe. The station is based in London, where it shares the Adrian Smith-designed 10 Fleet Pla ...
, both in scheduled slots and during
breaking news
Breaking news, interchangeably termed late-breaking news and also known as a special report or special coverage or news flash, is a current issue that broadcasters feel warrants the interruption of scheduled programming or current news in orde ...
, although rebroadcasts of MSNBC have stopped. However ''NBC Nightly News'' and ''Meet the Press'' are shown on the channel. In the Philippines, ''NBC Nightly News'' and ''Today'' is previously both shown on
9TV
9TV (formerly branded as Solar News Channel) was a major commercial television network in the Philippines. It was owned by Nine Media Corporation, Nine Media had an airtime agreement as the main content provider of Radio Philippines Network. 9 ...
(formerly
Talk TV and
Solar News Channel
Solar News Channel (SNC) was a major commercial television network in the Philippines, owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation's arm television subsidiary of Solar Television Network lease with its owner by Radio Philippines Network. Its flag ...
), while ''Early Today'' was officially dropped from the network in December 2013, but they replaced by the repeats of
Inside Edition
''Inside Edition'' is an American news broadcasting newsmagazine program that is distributed in first-run syndication by CBS Media Ventures. Having premiered on January 9, 1989, it is the longest-running syndicated-newsmagazine program that is no ...
, while ''Today'' dropped it in September 2014 to make room for the weekend children's programming and ''NBC Nightly News'' was the last to dropped it in March 2015, due to the firing of
Brian Williams as anchor and the move of
Lester Holt
Lester Don Holt Jr. (born March 8, 1959) is an American journalist and news anchor for the weekday edition of ''NBC Nightly News'' and ''Dateline NBC''. On June 18, 2015, Holt was made the permanent anchor of ''NBC Nightly News'' following the ...
to main anchor position as well as the anticipation of rebranding of the said network to
CNN Philippines
CNN Philippines (abbreviated as CNN PH) is a commercial broadcast, cable and satellite television network in the Philippines. It is owned and operated by Nine Media Corporation, together with Radio Philippines Network (RPN) as the main content ...
in March of the same year (both ''Nightly News'' and ''Today'' were both previously aired on
ETC
* Etc. or et cetera, a Latin expression meaning "and the other things" or "and the rest".
ETC or etc may also refer to:
Companies and organizations
* ETC (Chilean TV channel), a Chilean cable television channel
* ETC (Philippine TV channel), a P ...
from 2004 to 2005 and the now defunct
2nd Avenue from 2005 to 2007; ''Nightly News'' was later moved to C/S 9 (later Solar TV) from 2008 to 2011, while ''Today'' retains it separately on 2nd Avenue until 2011). After 5 years of not airing it in the Philippine airwaves, both ''NBC Nightly News'' and ''Today'' returned in November 2020 as the launch programs of
TAP TV
TAP TV (stylized as tap TV) is a 24-hour Philippine pay television channel owned by TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation. It is launched on April 14, 2019. A former sports channel, it currently broadcasts as a general entertainment channel ...
(''NBC Nightly News'' was later moved to its sister network
TAP Edge
TAP Edge (stylized as tap EDGE) is a 24-hour Philippine pay television channel owned by TAP Digital Media Ventures Corporation.
The channel airs a variety of entertainment genres focusing on action/suspense and crime dramas.
History
Prior to t ...
from January to October 2021, until they returned it to the said network in October 2021). TAP TV may also occasionally aired special coverage from NBC News, including the U.S. Elections every 2 years and the U.S. Presidential Inauguration every 4 years, as well as breaking news during regular broadcasts of ''Today''. ''NBC Nightly News'', along with the full program lineup of NBC, was carried by affiliate
VSB-TV
VSB-TV (channel 11) was a television station in Hamilton, Bermuda, which served the British territory as an affiliate of the American network NBC. The station was owned by the DeFontes Group, a Bermuda-based company which also owned and operated r ...
in Bermuda.
The
Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of ...
in
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
has close ties with NBC and has used a majority of the network's imaging and slogans since the 1970s. ''
Seven News
''7NEWS'' is the television news service of the Seven Network and, as of 2021, the highest-rating in Australia.
National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition television, high definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while f ...
'' has featured ''
The Mission'' as its news theme since the mid-1980s. Local newscasts were named ''Seven Nightly News'' from the mid-1980s until around 2000. NBC and Seven will often share news recourses between the two countries. NBC News has been known to use Seven News reporters for live reports on a developing news story in Australia. Seven News will sometimes also incorporate an NBC News report into its national bulletins. ''Today'', ''Weekend Today'' and ''Meet The Press'' are all broadcast on the
Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of ...
during the early morning hours from 3-5 a.m., just before Seven's own morning show ''
Sunrise
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Terminology
Al ...
''.
In
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
, ''
NBC Nightly News
''NBC Nightly News'' (titled as ''NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt'' for its weeknight broadcasts since June 22, 2015) is the flagship daily evening News broadcasting#Television, television news program for NBC News, the news division of the NB ...
'' is
live digital television broadcast transmission (or
delayed) on
TVB Pearl
TVB Pearl is a terrestrial television channel in Hong Kong owned by Television Broadcasts Limited. Established on 19 November 1967, it shares headquarters with TVB's other properties at TVB City at 77 Chun Choi Street in Tseung Kwan O Industr ...
daily from 7:00 AM until 8:00 AM
Hong Kong Time
Hong Kong Time (abbreviation: HKT; ) is the time in Hong Kong, observed at UTC+08:00 all year round. The Hong Kong Observatory is the official timekeeper of the Hong Kong Time. It is indicated as Asia/Hong_Kong in the IANA time zone database.
...
(6:00 PM until 7:00 PM
New York City Time).
In the
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...
, the
ITV
ITV or iTV may refer to:
ITV
*Independent Television (ITV), a British television network, consisting of:
** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...
network used to air segments from ''NBC Nightly News'' on their ''
ITV News at 5:30'' morning newscast before it was cancelled in December 2012. NBC News share facilities and crew in the UK with
ITN, which is the news provider for ITV. NBC News Now is shown as a linear channel on both the Sky and Virgin Media platforms in the UK.
Theme music
Most of NBC's news television programs use "
The Mission" by
John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (15 November 2022)Classic Connection review ''WBOI'' ("For the second time this year, the Fort Wayne Philharmonic honored American composer, conductor, and arranger John Williams, who wa ...
as their theme. The composition was first used by NBC in 1985 and was updated in 2004.
References
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