David Brinkley was a famous news
anchor, both radio and television, for NBC and ABC for several years. His work
gained him great recognition for all of his work. He received several awards
for his fine efforts in reporting.
David
McClure Brinkley was born on July 10, 1920 in Wilmington, North Carolina. He
got his start in reporting when he was in high school for Star News, a local
newspaper. He attended the University of North Carolina, Emory University, and
Vanderbilt University before he enlisted in the US army. He was discharged in
1943.
After
Brinkley was discharged, he went to Washington DC as a radio broadcaster during
World Ward II in 1943. He worked for the National Broadcasting Company,
otherwise known as NBC. He later became NBC’s first White House correspondent.
In
1947, Brinkley moved from radio onto television broadcasting and joined forces
with Chet Huntley. Together they started the Hunter-Brinkley Report, which took
the news world by storm. Their nightly news broadcast was the most popular on
television and was later extended from 15 to 30 minutes long in 1963. The show’s
popularity was later overtaken by Walter Cronkite’s CBS Evening news in the
last 1960’s.
Huntley
retired in 1970 and Brinkley left NBC News shortly after. Brinkley was then offered a job at ABC. At ABC, he had a Sunday morning show called This Week with
David Brinkley. Here, Brinkley held interviews with a variety of people and
discussed news as well.
Brinkley
left This Week in November of 1996. He was the longest running news anchor in
history. During his time, he received numerous awards, including 10 Emmy Awards and three George Foster Peabody Awards. He was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush. Brinkley died in Houston, Texas at 82 years old. He will forever be remembered for his accomplishments in news reporting.
Sources used:
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Brinkley_David.html
(Textbook) American Journalists: Getting the Story by Donald A. Ritchie
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