Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is an American journalist at
MSNBC, serving as the network's chief anchor and host of its nightly
wrap-up program, The 11th Hour with Brian Williams.Williams is known
for his ten years as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News,
the evening news program on NBC. After Williams joined the program in
December 2004, NBC News was awarded the Peabody Award for its coverage
of Hurricane Katrina, and Williams accepted the award on behalf of the
organization. In February 2015, Williams was suspended for six months
from NBC Nightly News for "misrepresent[ing] events which occurred
while he was covering the Iraq War in 2003", and on June 18, 2015 he
was demoted to breaking news anchor for MSNBC.Born on May 5, 1959 in
Ridgewood, New Jersey, Williams was raised in a "boisterous" Catholic
home, of largely Irish descent. He is the son of Dorothy May (née
Pampel) and Gordon Lewis Williams, who was an executive vice president
of the National Retail Merchants Association, in New York. His mother
was an amateur stage actress. Williams is the youngest of four
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