The Yale Daily News is an independent student newspaper published by Yale University students in New Haven, Connecticut since January 28, 1878. The newspaper's first editors wrote:

History and description[link]

Financially and editorially independent of Yale University since its founding, the paper is published by a student editorial and business staff five days a week, Monday through Friday, during Yale's academic year. Called the YDN (or sometimes the News or the Daily News), the paper is produced in the Briton Hadden Memorial Building at 202 York Street in New Haven and printed off-site at the Republican-American in Waterbury, Connecticut. Each day, reporters, mainly freshmen and sophomores, cover the university, the city of New Haven and sometimes the state of Connecticut. An expanded sports section is published on Monday, a two-page Opinion Forum on Friday, and "WEEKEND", an arts and living section, also on Friday. The News prints an Arts & Culture spread on Tuesdays, a Science and Technology spread on Wednesdays, and a Business & Enterprise page on Thursdays.

Staff members are generally elected as editors on the managing board during their junior year. A single chairman led the News until 1970. Today, the editor-in-chief and publisher act as co-presidents of the Yale Daily News Publishing Company. The "News' View," a staff editorial, represents the position of the majority of the editorial board.

The paper version of the News is distributed for free throughout Yale's campus and the city of New Haven; it is also published online. The paper was once a subscription-only publication, delivered to student postal boxes for $40 a year. Subscriptions declined after the 1986 founding of the weekly (and free) Yale Herald student newspaper, bottoming out at 570 in 1994.^[1] The News switched to free distribution later that year.

The News serves as a training ground for journalists at Yale, and has produced a steady stream of professional reporters, who work at newspapers and magazines including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker and The Economist.

In addition to the newspaper, the Yale Daily News Publishing Company also produces a monthly Yale Daily News Magazine; special issues of the newspaper for the incoming freshman class, Yale's Class Day and Commencement, and the last home game of the football season; and The Insider's Guide to the Colleges.

On September 3, 2008, the "Oldest College Daily" "premiere[d] a new look" designed by Mario Garcia of Garcia Media and Pegie Stark Adam of Stark Adam Design.^[2] The News' front page design for November 5, 2008, the day after Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 Presidential Election was featured in the Poynter Institute book: President Obama Election 2008: Collection of Newspaper Front Pages by the Poynter Institute.^[3]

"Cross Campus", a daily feature on the front page of the News is a collection of short, pithy news items and is published online as a blog.^[4] The News also publishes a sports blog titled Boola Boola^[5] and an arts and living blog titled Scene Blog.^[6]

In 2009, the Yale Daily News won the Associated Collegiate Press Newspaper Pacemaker Award.^[7]

On September 10, 2009, the News broke the news of the murder of Annie Le, a Yale graduate student reported missing and subsequently found murdered in the basement of her laboratory, .^[8]

In summer 2010, the 78-year-old Briton Hadden Memorial Building was renovated, increasing the amount of usable space in the basement and adding a multimedia studio in the heart of the newsroom. ^[9] On October 16, the News is to rededicate the newly renovated space. ^[10]

Contested claim[link]

The News claims to be the "oldest college daily" in the United States. This claim, however, is contested by other student newspapers. The Harvard Crimson claims to be "the oldest continuously published college daily", but traces its roots to an 1873 bimonthly publication called The Magenta. The News ceased publishing briefly during both World War I and World War II after editors volunteered for military service. The Daily Targum at Rutgers University was founded in 1869 but was published initially as a monthly newspaper and did not gain independence from the University until 1980. The Columbia Daily Spectator, founded one year earlier than the YDN in 1877, claims to be the second-oldest college daily, but was not independent until the 1960s. Similarly, The Daily Californian at the University of California, Berkeley was founded in 1871 but did not achieve independence until 1971. The Cornell Daily Sun, launched in 1880, claimed to be the "oldest independent college newspaper", notwithstanding the YDN's independence since its founding two years earlier. The Dartmouth of Dartmouth College, which opened in 1799 as the Dartmouth Gazette, calls itself the oldest college newspaper, though not the oldest daily. Most accurately put, the News is the oldest independent college daily newspaper.

Alumni[link]

Politics[link]

• Lanny Davis, advisor to President Clinton, author and public relations expert
• David Gergen, advisor to four Presidents and U.S. News and World Report editor-at-large
• Reed Hundt, former FCC chairman
• Joseph Lieberman, U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 2000 Vice Presidential nominee and 2004 Presidential Candidate
• Robert D. Orr, former governor of Indiana
• Andrew Romanoff, former Colorado Speaker of the House, candidate for Democratic nomination to U.S. Senate
• Sargent Shriver, first Peace Corps director
• Potter Stewart, former Supreme Court associate justice
• Stuart Symington, former U.S. senator from Missouri
• Strobe Talbott, president of The Brookings Institution and former Deputy Secretary of State under President Clinton
• Garry Trudeau, cartoonist and creator of Doonesbury, which first appeared in the News' pages as Bull Tales
• David A. Pepper, Ohio politician

Journalism[link]

• Pete Axthelm, famed sportswriter
• Ellen Barry, Pulitzer-prize winning Moscow correspondent, The New York Times
• Melinda Beck, Marketplace editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal
• Alex Berenson, business reporter for The New York Times
• Christopher Buckley, novelist and writer
• William F. Buckley, Jr., founder of National Review
• Meghan Clyne is a Washington, D.C.-based writer, recently for The Weekly Standard
• Michael Crowley, senior editor, New Republic
• Charles Duhigg, business reporter for The New York Times
• Charles Forelle, European correspondent for The Wall Street Journal
• Dan Froomkin, White House Briefing columnist for Washingtonpost.com
• Zack O'Malley Greenburg, Forbes staff writer and author of Jay-Z biography Empire State of Mind (book)
• Lloyd Grove, freelance writer, former gossip columnist for the New York Daily News and The Washington Post
• R. Thomas Herman, reporter and tax columnist for The Wall Street Journal
• John Hersey, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author
• Robert G. Kaiser, associate editor of The Washington Post
• Matthew Kaminski, editorial board member, The Wall Street Journal
• David Leonhardt, Pulitzer-prize winning economics columnist, The New York Times
• Joanne Lipman, founding Editor-in-Chief of Conde Nast Portfolio magazine and former Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal.^[11]
• Adam Liptak, supreme court correspondent for The New York Times
• Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, co-founders of Time
• Dana Milbank, White House correspondent for The Washington Post
• Robert Semple, Pulitzer Prize winner and member of The New York Times editorial board
• Paul Steiger, Editor-in-Chief of "ProPublica," former managing editor of "The Wall Street Journal"
• John Tierney, columnist for The New York Times
• Calvin Trillin, columnist and humorist
• Jacob Weisberg, editor of Slate

Other[link]

• Kingman Brewster, former president of Yale University and ambassador to the Court of St. James's
• Lan Samantha Chang, director of Iowa Writers' Workshop
• Theo Epstein, Boston Red Sox general manager
• Thayer Hobson, chairman of William Morrow and Company^[12]
• Eli Jacobs, Wall Street investor, former owner of the Baltimore Orioles (1989–1993).^[13]
• Paul Mellon, philanthropist
• John E. Pepper, Jr., chairman of the Walt Disney Company and CEO of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, former CEO and chairman of Procter & Gamble, and Yale's former vice president of finance and administration and senior fellow of the Yale Corporation
• Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor
• Gaddis Smith, professor emeritus of history at Yale
• Lyman Spitzer, theoretical physicist
• Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and economic researcher

In popular culture[link]

• The characters Rory Gilmore and Paris Geller have both served as editors of the Yale Daily News on the CW TV show Gilmore Girls.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• 125th Anniversary Exhibit
• Historical archive at Yale University

Daily News or The Daily News is the name of several daily newspapers around the world, including:

Australia[link]

• Tweed Daily News, New South Wales
• Warwick Daily News, Queensland
• Daily News (Perth, Western Australia) (1882-1990)

Bahrain[link]

• Gulf Daily News

Canada[link]

• Dawson Creek Daily News, British Columbia
• Kamloops Daily News, British Columbia
• Nelson Daily News (1902-2010), British Columbia
• Prince Rupert Daily News (1911-2010), British Columbia
• Today Daily News (Toronto), Ontario
• Truro Daily News, Nova Scotia
• Montreal Daily News (1988-1989), Quebec

Egypt[link]

• Daily News Egypt

Guam[link]

• Pacific Daily News, Hagåtña

India[link]

• Daily News and Analysis

Ireland[link]

• Daily News (Ireland), a short-lived paper of 1982
• Dustin's Daily News, television chat/comedy show

Malaysia[link]

• Oriental Daily News (Malaysia)
• Overseas Chinese Daily News
• See Hua Daily News

New Zealand[link]

• Taranaki Daily News, New Plymouth

Pakistan[link]

• Daily News (Karachi)

People's Republic of China[link]

• Macao Daily News
• North China Daily News (1850-1941), Shanghai
• Oriental Daily News, Hong Kong
• Sing Pao Daily News, Hong Kong
• Tin Tin Daily News (1960-2000), Hong Kong

Republic of China[link]

• China Daily News (Taiwan)
• Central Daily News
• Kinmen Daily News
• Mandarin Daily News
• United Daily News

Romania[link]

• Bucharest Daily News

Singapore[link]

• Shin Min Daily News

South Africa[link]

• The Daily News (Durban)

Sri Lanka[link]

• Daily News (Sri Lanka)

Tanzania[link]

• Daily News (Tanzania)

Thailand[link]

• Daily News (Thailand)

Turkey[link]

• Hürriyet Daily News

United Kingdom[link]

• Birmingham Daily News
• Daily News (UK) (1846-1930), merged to form the News Chronicle
• London Daily News (1987-1987)
• Scottish Daily News (1975-1975)

United States[link]

• Daily News Record (1892-2008), American fashion trade journal
• International Daily News, sold in several major Chinatowns

Alaska[link]

• Anchorage Daily News
• Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
• Ketchikan Daily News

Arizona[link]

• Mohave Valley Daily News, Bullhead City
• Tempe Daily News

California[link]

• Burlingame Daily News
• Daily News – Antelope Valley, Palmdale
• The Daily News (Palo Alto)
• Daily News (Red Bluff)
• The Daily News (San Francisco)
• East Bay Daily News, Berkeley
• Los Angeles Daily News
• Los Angeles Daily News (historic), originally the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News
• Los Gatos Daily News
• Nguoi Viet Daily News, Westminster
• Redwood City Daily News (2000-2009)
• San Mateo Daily News (2000-2009)
• Vien Dong Daily News Westminster
• Whittier Daily News

Colorado[link]

• Aspen Daily News
• Denver Daily News (2001-2011)

Connecticut[link]

• Yale Daily News, Yale University, New Haven

District of Columbia[link]

• The Washington Daily News

Florida[link]

• Naples Daily News
• Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach
• Palatka Daily News
• Palm Beach Daily News

Georgia[link]

• LaGrange Daily News

Idaho[link]

• Moscow-Pullman Daily News

Illinois[link]

• Chicago Daily News
• Effingham Daily News

Indiana[link]

• The Ball State Daily News, Muncie
• Greensburg Daily News

Iowa[link]

• Newton Daily News

Kansas[link]

• Hays Daily News

Kentucky[link]

• The Daily News (Kentucky) Bowling Green
• Middlesboro Daily News

Louisiana[link]

• Bogalusa Daily News

Maine[link]

• Bangor Daily News

Massachusetts[link]

• Athol Daily News
• The Daily News of Newburyport
• The Daily News Transcript, Norwood
• The Daily News Tribune, Waltham
• The MetroWest Daily News, Framingham
• The Milford Daily News

Michigan[link]

• The Daily News (Iron Mountain)
• Midland Daily News

Minnesota[link]

• Mesabi Daily News, Virginia
• Winona Daily News

Montana[link]

• Havre Daily News

Nebraska[link]

• Norfolk Daily News

New Mexico[link]

• Alamogordo Daily News

New York[link]

• The Daily News (Batavia)
• Daily News Live (SportsNet New York), sports oriented television talk show
• Daily News (New York)

North Carolina[link]

• Daily News (Eden)
• Jacksonville Daily News
• Washington Daily News

North Dakota[link]

• Minot Daily News
• Wahpeton Daily News

Ohio[link]

• Dayton Daily News
• Sidney Daily News

Oklahoma[link]

• Anadarko Daily News
• Elk City Daily News
• Weatherford Daily News

Pennsylvania[link]

• Daily News Live (Comcast SportsNet), sports oriented television talk show
• The Daily News (McKeesport)
• Lebanon Daily News
• Philadelphia Daily News

Rhode Island[link]

• The Newport Daily News

Tennessee[link]

• The Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro
• Daily News (Kingsport)
• The Daily News (Memphis)

Texas[link]

• The Daily News (Texas), Galveston
• The Lufkin Daily News
• Henderson Daily News

Vermont[link]

• Vermont Daily News

Washington[link]

• The Daily News (Longview)
• Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles

Wisconsin[link]

• Beloit Daily News
• Rhinelander Daily News

United States Virgin Islands[link]

• The Virgin Islands Daily News

Zimbabwe[link]

• Daily News (Harare)
• Zimbabwe Daily News

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David Burt (1953) is a British actor,^[1] known primarily for his many and wide-ranging West End performances.

Burt recently starred as the flamboyant Count Fosco opposite Yvette Robinson in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White at the Palace Theatre and was featured as Captain Andy Hawks in Show Boat at the Royal Albert Hall.

Other London credits include Anatoly in Chess, Orin Scrivello DDS in Little Shop of Horrors, Captain Harkness in the world premiere musical adaptation of The Far Pavilions, Vic Christian in the Pet Shop Boys' musical Closer to Heaven, and Ernest Hemingway in the musical Beautiful and Damned. He also appeared in the Royal National Theatre production of Leonard Bernstein's musical Candide. He created the role of King John in Blondel, by Tim Rice and Stephen Oliver. David Burt can be heard on the 1985 original London cast recording of Les Misérables, as Enjolras, and the 1996 London cast recording of Jesus Christ Superstar.

As of August 2007, Burt is playing the role of nefarious prison officer Jim Fenner in Bad Girls: The Musical at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End. In April 2008 he will play Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott in a British tour of G. M. Calhoun's The Last South. He was the only member of the original Les Miserables cast not to appear at the 25th Anniversary concert claiming he would not be able to sing the part in the encore anymore.

He is the son of Pip Hinton, better known for her role in Crackerjack alongside Eamonn Andrews and later Leslie Crowther.

He graduated as a student of RADA and soon became a popular choice for LLoyd Webber when casting new musicals.

As of October 2011, he is playing the part of 'Zangler' in the West End version of 'Crazy for You' at the Novello theatre, London. Notable hijinks included handing a hard hat to an orchestra member during the bows, after accidentally sending a chair into the pit during Act 2.

References[link]

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Former U.S. President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush stand with 2005 National Humanities Medal recipient John Lewis Gaddis on November 10, 2005 in the Oval Office at the White House.

John Lewis Gaddis (born 1941 in Cotulla, Texas, U.S.)^[1] is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy,^[2] who has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times. He is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University.^[2][3] He is also the official biographer of the seminal 20th century statesman George F. Kennan,^[4] for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2012.^[5]

Biography[link]

Raised in Cotulla, Texas, Gaddis attended the University of Texas at Austin,^[6]. He received his B.A. in 1963, his M.A. in 1965, and his Ph.D. in 1968, under the direction of Robert Divine.^[7] He taught briefly at Indiana University Southeast before joining Ohio University in 1969.^[6] At Ohio, he founded and directed the Contemporary History Institute^[8] and was named a distinguished professor in 1983.^[6] In the 1975-1977 academic years, Gaddis was a Visiting Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College. In the 1992-1993 academic year, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. He has held visiting positions at the Naval War College, Princeton University, and the University of Helsinki. He served as president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 1992.^[9] In 1997, he moved to Yale University to become the Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History. In the 2000-2001 academic year, Gaddis was the George Eastman Professor at Oxford, the second scholar (after Robin Winks) to have the honor of being both Eastman and Harmsworth professor.^[10]

In 2005, he received the National Humanities Medal.^[11]

Scholarship[link]

Gaddis is best known for his critical analysis of the strategies of containment employed by United States presidents from Harry S. Truman to Ronald Reagan, and for arguing that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's personality and role in history was one of the most important causes of the Cold War. Within the field of U.S. diplomatic history, he is most associated with the concept of 'post-revisionism,' the idea of moving past the revisionist and orthodox interpretations of the origins of the Cold War to embrace what were (in the 1970s) interpretations based upon the then-growing availability of government documents from the United States, Great Britain and other western government archives.

His recent work The Cold War: A New History (2005) examines the history and effects of the Cold War in a more removed context than previously possible.^[8]

Other important works include We Now Know (1997), an analysis of the Cold War from its origins to the Cuban Missile Crisis, incorporating new archival evidence from the Soviet bloc, and his revised edition of Strategies of Containment (2005), which analyzes in detail the theory and methods used to contain the Soviet Union from the Truman to Reagan administrations.

Awards and accolades[link]

• Stuart L. Bernath Prize (1973) from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
• National Historical Society Prize (1973)
• Bancroft Prize (1973)
• Guggenheim Fellow (1986)
• President, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (1992)
• National Humanities Medal (2005)^[12]
• Harry S. Truman Book Award (2006)^[13]
• American History Book Prize (2012)^[14]
• National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2012)
• Pulitzer Prize for Biography (2012)^[5]

Publications[link]

• The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947 (1972; 2nd. ed., 2000).
• Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States: An Interpretive History (1978, 2d ed., 1990)
• Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (1982; 2d ed. 2005)
• The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War (1987)
• The United States and the End of the Cold War: Reconsideration, Implications, Provocations (1992)
• "On Moral Equivalency and Cold War History" Ethics & International Affairs, Volume 10 (1996)
• We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (1997) ISBN 0-19-878071-0
• The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002)
• Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (2004)
• The Cold War: A New History, Penguin Press (2005). ISBN 1-59420-062-9 (US edition). The Cold War, Allen Lane (2005). ISBN 0-7139-9912-8 (UK edition).
• "Ending Tyranny: The past and future of an idea" The American Interest (September–October 2008)
• George F. Kennan: An American Life (2011)^[15] (ISBN 978-1594203121)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Booknotes interview with Gaddis on Surprise, Security, and the American Experience, May 16, 2004.

Brian Williams
Williams at the 2011 Time 100 gala
Born	Brian Douglas Williams (1959-05-05) May 5, 1959 (age 53) Ridgewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Education	Brookdale Community College George Washington University The Catholic University of America
Occupation	News Anchor and Managing Editor of NBC Nightly News
Years active	1981–present
Notable credit(s)	NBC News reporter (1993–2004) NBC Nightly News weekend anchor (1993–1999) NBC Nightly News anchor (2004–present)
Salary	$10 million annually[1]
Spouse	Jane Gillan Stoddard Williams[2]
Website
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3667173/

Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, the evening news program of the NBC television network, a position he assumed in 2004.^[2] Williams was listed among Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2007,^[3] and in 2010, a prominent media observer dubbed him "the Walter Cronkite of the 21st century."^[4]

Early life[link]

Williams was reared in a middle-class Irish Catholic home.^[5] His father, Gordon L. Williams, was an executive vice president of the National Retail Merchants Association, in New York.^[6] During childhood, his family moved from his birthplace, Ridgewood, New Jersey,^[7] to Elmira, New York. He lived in Elmira for ten years before moving to Middletown, New Jersey, when he was in junior high school.^[8]

He graduated from Mater Dei High School, a Roman Catholic high school in the New Monmouth section of Middletown.^[9] While in high school, he was a volunteer firefighter for three years at the Middletown Township Fire Department. His first job was as a busboy at Perkins Pancake House.^[10]

After high school Wiliams attended Brookdale Community College, after which he transferred to The Catholic University of America, and then The George Washington University.^[11] He did not graduate, and instead interned with the administration of President Jimmy Carter. He now calls leaving college one of his "great regrets".^[12] Brian Williams completed a total of 18 college credits."^[13]

Early career[link]

After working in the lobbying arm of the National Association of Broadcasters, Williams began his broadcasting career at KOAM-TV in Joplin, Missouri in 1981.^[14] A year later he moved back to Washington, D.C. and worked at WTTG as general assignment reporter. Williams joined NBC News from WCBS-TV in New York in 1993 and became the network's chief White House correspondent in 1994. In 1996, Williams began anchoring The News with Brian Williams on MSNBC and rebroadcast on CNBC.

[edit] Nightly News

Williams became anchor of NBC Nightly News on December 2, 2004, and his first year in that post was marked by coverage of two disasters: the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina. NBC personnel felt that the program became his program (rather than predecessor Tom Brokaw's) with his coverage of the tsunami,^[15] and his reporting on Katrina, including from inside the New Orleans Superdome, was given praise by industry observers.^[16] His work helped earn NBC a Peabody Award,^[17] the Peabody committee concluding that Williams and the Nightly News staff "exemplified the highest levels of journalistic excellence in reporting on Hurricane Katrina."^[18]

Nightly News fell behind ABC's World News in the first half of 2007. Nightly News regained the lead later in the year^[19] and expanded it beginning in the fall of 2008.^[20] Williams was compared by Jon Friedman of Marketwatch to Walter Cronkite.^[4]

When Williams succeeded Tom Brokaw as anchor of NBC Nightly News, his annual salary was reported to be $8 million,^[21] and by October 2006, it had reportedly increased to $10 million.^[1] He occasionally fills in for Lester Holt on weekends when needed.

On Sunday, May 1, 2011, Williams anchored a simulcast between all NBC affiliates and MSNBC covering the death of Osama bin Laden, going on air before 11:30 pm and continuing coverage until at least 2:00 am.

[edit] Rock Center with Brian Williams

On Tuesday, October 4, 2011, it was announced that Williams would be the host of Rock Center with Brian Williams, a newsmagazine program premiering on Monday, October 31, 2011, at 10:00 pm Eastern, replacing the cancelled drama series The Playboy Club.^[22] Named after the nickname of Rockefeller Center, the New York City landmark where NBC Radio City Studios are located, the program would become the first new NBC News program to launch in primetime in nearly two decades.^[23]

Appearances[link]

Williams frequently appears on The Daily Show as a celebrity guest interviewed by Jon Stewart. He appeared on the Weekend Update segment of Saturday Night Live before hosting the program on November 3, 2007.^[24]

Williams regularly appears on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, where he slow jams the news of the previous week as Fallon sings and reiterates what Williams says, with The Roots providing the musical backing. He has also made numerous appearances on Late Show with David Letterman despite its being on CBS, a competing network. During an appearance on July 26, 2011, Williams demonstrated a skilled vocal impersonation of TV personality Regis Philbin. Williams has also appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien where he took part in numerous skits and interviews.

Williams also frequently makes guest appearances on NBC's television comedy 30 Rock as a caricatured version of himself. In the episode The Ones, he's seen at home receiving proposition calls meant for Tracy Jordan. In Audition Day, he auditions to be a new TGS cast member. He also is seen once on the show taunting a CNBC news host. In April 2012, on the West Coast installment of the 30 Rock season 6 live show, Williams portrayed a news anchor covering the Apollo 13 story.

Williams appeared on Sesame Street in a 2007 episode, announcing the word of the day, squid, in a special broadcast. Williams appeared on Sesame Street again in a 2008 episode reporting for Sesame Street Nightly News about the Mine-itis outbreak where he becomes a victim of it. He also was the host of the 2009 Annual Sesame Workshop Benefit Gala.

In May 2012, Williams spoke at The George Washington University commencement on the National Mall.

Personal life[link]

He lives in New Canaan, Connecticut, with his wife, Jane Gillan Stoddard Williams, two children, Allison and Douglas Williams, and two dogs.^[26]

NASCAR[link]

Williams is an avid fan of NASCAR in both the local and national levels. He was first exposed to auto racing as a child attending races on dirt tracks all over upstate New York. In 1999, Williams was the studio host of the first NASCAR race ever shown on NBC, the Pennzoil 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Two years later, at NASCAR's awards banquet in New York City, he introduced a videotaped tribute to Dale Earnhardt, who had died at the Daytona 500 some months earlier. Earnhardt and Williams had become close friends.

A 2012 promo for Rock Center with Brian Williams features a baseball motif, with the journalists' jerseys. Williams' jersey, similar to Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost, in honor of his Earnhardt friendship, carried #3.

New York Giants[link]

Brian Williams has shown himself to be a fan of the New York Giants NFL franchise. This became noticeable publicly during the Giants 2011 Super Bowl run during which Williams was noted for not only openly discussing his fandom, but also wearing a New York Giants jersey underneath his sports jacket and over his dress shirt and tie, similar to a sweater.^[27]

Career timeline[link]

• 1981: KOAM-TV
• 1982–1984: WTTG-TV correspondent
• 1985: Panorama Host
• 1985–1987: WCAU-TV New Jersey correspondent
• 1987–1993: WCBS-TV Anchor of weekday noon and weekend night newscasts; reporter
• 1993–1994: NBC News correspondent
• 1994–1996: NBC News White House correspondent
• 1996–2004: The News with Brian Williams anchor
• 2004–present: NBC Nightly News anchor
• 2011–present: Rock Center with Brian Williams host

References[link]

External links[link]

• NBC News Bio
• The Daily Nightly - Brian Williams's blog
• Bio and photo of Brian Williams — Crain's New York Business 40 under 40 — 1998^{[dead link]}
• Video of talk to journalists group - from SAJAforum.org
• Men's Vogue profile of Brian Williams
• Chmiel, David, "His Heart Belongs to Jersey", New Jersey Monthly, June 9, 2008. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
• C-SPAN Q&A interview with Williams, December 26, 2004