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Journalists / News Media / Global Outlook / Current Events
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Leadership and Management
Brian Williams Speaker Profile: At A Glance
Brian Williams is a 40-year veteran of television news and is among the most highly-decorated journalists of his generation. After 28 years at NBC News, he signed off the air for the last time on December 9, 2021. Over the course of his career, he covered every major story imaginable: political conventions and Presidential elections, our nation’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, conflict in the Middle East, natural disasters, and countless mass-casualty tragedies in the United States and abroad. He traveled to over two dozen countries, many of them aboard Air Force One.
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