Brian Williams

Project: NBC Nightly News

Born as Brian Douglas Williams, the New Jersey native gained fame as the managing editor, as well as the anchor of the NBC network show NBC Nightly News. The Peabody Award-winning newscaster has been the anchor of the show ever since 2004. He has been given credit for boosting the position of the show. Praised as the “most watched TV news anchor in the U.S.”, he most notably covered Hurricane Katrina in 2005, further raising his fame as a competent journalist.

This all came to a gradual stop in February 2015, when NBC News President Deborah Turness announced that Brian Williams was to be suspended without pay in his positions. This was because the NBC Nightly News anchor made false claims about an experience he had during the Iraq War. Due to this, several military personnel called him out. Under literal fire, Williams apologized and took back his statements. Although the newscaster was suspended, it only lasted for half a year. The end of which saw him being removed from his role as NBC Nightly News anchor. He is currently a news anchor in NBC’s MSNBC channel.