Tom Brokaw, anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw," is equally at ease covering news events from the world's capitals or in small towns across America, whether from his anchor desk at NBC News' world headquarters in New York, or from locations across the country or around the world.

The sole anchor of weekday "NBC Nightly News" since 1983, Brokaw has an impressive history of "firsts."

He conducted the first exclusive U.S. one-on-one interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, earning an Alfred 1. duPont-Columbia University Award. He was the only anchor to report from the scene the night the Berlin Wall fell. He was the first American anchor to report on human-rights abuses in Tibet and to conduct an interview with the Dalai Lama. In 1995, he was the first network evening news anchor to report from the site of the Oklahoma City bombing, and in 1996, from the scene of the TWA Flight 800 tragedy. He was the first anchor to find and interview Charlie Trie and Johnny Chung, key figures in the 1997 campaign finance abuse scandal. In March of 1999, he traveled to Moscow to conduct the first North American television interview with Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, and in May, he was the first of the network evening news anchors to travel to Tirana, Albania during the NATO air strikes in Yugoslavia.

In 2000, Brokaw again returned to Moscow for the first American Television interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin and most recently, he served as master of ceremonies for the opening of the National D-Day museum. In addition to "Nightly News," Brokaw anchored The Brokaw Report (1992-93), a series of prime-time specials that examined critical issues facing our nation.

He also co-anchored the prime-time news magazine Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric (1993-94). In addition, he has played an active role in many other prime-time NBC news specials and in-depth reports. In June 1997, he anchored the "Dateline NBC" documentary special, Tom Brokaw Reports: Why Can't We Live Together, which examined the hidden realities of racial separation in America's suburbs. He earned an Alfred duPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism for this special report.

In December 1998, Brokaw wrote his first book, now a best-seller, The Greatest Generation , an exquisitely written account of the generation of Americans born in the who came of age during the Great Depression, fought in the Second World War, and went on to build America. The Greatest Generation was also the subject of an NBC News documentary special that aired in January 1999. Inspired by the avalanche of mail Brokaw received from The Greatest Generation, a second book, The Greatest Generation Speaks was published in 1999.

Brokaw joined NBC News in 1966, reporting from California and anchoring for KNBC, the NBC television station in Los Angeles. From 1973 to 1976 he was NBC's White House correspondent, and from 1976 to 1981, he anchored NBC News' Today. An acclaimed political reporter, Brokaw has covered every presidential election since 1968. Brokaw began his career in journalism after graduating from the University of South Dakota in 1962 at KMTV, Omaha. In 1965 he anchored the late-evening news on WSB-TV.