Brian Williams is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on May 5, 1959 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States. NBC Nightly News anchor who replaced Tom Brokaw in 2004. After embellishing a story regarding his coverage of the Iraq War in 2015, he was suspended from Nightly News for six months. He also presented on Rock Center and Dateline NBC.
When he was suspended from NBC Nightly News, Lester Holt took over as news anchor.
Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is an American journalist at NBC News, currently serving as the chief anchor for the network’s cable news channel MSNBC and as host of the network’s nightly wrap-up program, The 11th Hour with Brian Williams.
Williams first worked in broadcasting in 1981 at KOAM-TV in Pittsburg, Kansas. The following year he covered news in the Washington, D.C., area at then-independent station WTTG, then worked in Philadelphia for WCAU, then owned and operated by CBS. Beginning in 1987 he broadcast in New York City at WCBS.
He got married to Jane Stoddard Williams on June 7, 1986 and they had a daughter, Allison, and a son, Douglas.