WSU to Provide Webcast of Brokaw at Murrow Symposium

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University will provide live Web coverage of Tom Brokaw’s acceptance of the Edward R. Murrow Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting. The presentation will be made at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Beasley Coliseum. Access to the event is available over the Internet at https://experience.wsu.edu/

Brokaw, a political science graduate from the University of South Dakota, began his journalism career in Omaha and Atlanta before joining NBC News in 1966. Brokaw was the White House correspondent for NBC News during Watergate, and from 1976 to 1981 he anchored “Today” on NBC. He was the sole anchor and managing editor of “NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw” from 1983 until stepping down from the anchor desk in 2004. 

During his distinguished career, Brokaw has won every major award in broadcast journalism. He continues to produce documentary projects for NBC. Brokaw is the author of three bestsellers: “The Greatest Generation,” “The Greatest Generation Speaks” and “An Album of Memories.”