Brian Williams

Brian Douglas Williams born May 5 1959 is an American journalist and television news anchor He was a correspondent for NBC Nightly News starting in 1993 before his promotion to anchor and managing editor of the broadcast in December 2004 In February 2015 Williams was suspended by NBC News for six months for misrepresenting events which occurred while he was covering the Iraq War in 2003 Four months after the incident came to light the network removed him from NBC Nightly News permanently and reassigned demoted him as the breaking news anchor for MSNBC In September 2016 Williams became the host of MSNBCs political news show The 11th Hour Williams announced in November 2021 that he would be leaving MSNBC and NBC News at the completion of his contract the following month when he hosted his final episode of The 11th Hour Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Williams licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia