The Impact Of War: How Departing Troops Say Goodbye To Family
President Obama's announcement of increased deployments in Afghanistan was sure to elicit strong opinions from around the country. Though all American...
President Obama's announcement of increased deployments in Afghanistan was sure to elicit strong opinions from around the country. Though all American...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media
On December 2, 2004, Brian Williams took the helm of "NBC Nightly News." Take a look back at the last five years of highlights in Williams' career ...
Posted 11.28.2009 | Impact
Vicki Escarra, the president and CEO of Feeding America, calls hunger America's "dirty little secret." Mara Schiavocampo from NBC Nightly News discove...
Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold Reporting From New York | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media
So last month, days before heading on an intense reporting trip to Afghanistan, Williams appeared on the NPR news quiz show "Wait, Wait . . . Don'...
Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
Several weeks ago Brian Williams profiled the children of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO) and its founder Andeisha Farid in ...
Posted 11.12.2009 | Impact
Halle Berry spoke candidly and compassionately on domestic violence and abuse during an interview for "NBC Nightly News'" "Making a Difference" series...
Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact
Glenn Close encouraged people to speak out about mental illness on "NBC Nightly News" tonight. The segment was part of their "Making A Difference" ser...
Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact
Alicia Keys was featured on "NBC Nightly News" tonight as part of their "Making A Difference" series. Though the series typically focuses on ordinary ...
Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact
As previously mentioned on Impact, NBC Nightly News is devoting a week of "Make A Difference" segments to profiling celebrities and their charitable e...
Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact
All this week, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams will be featuring celebrities who "make a difference" in local communities and around the world. F...
Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 11.04.2009 | Impact
NBC Nightly News viewers have raised more than $50,000 for an orphanage in Afghanistan, the program reported Tuesday. Last Friday, Nightly News aired ...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media
While the conventional wisdom says the evening news is dying, "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" actually grew year-over-year, easily winning the ...
Comedy Central Insider Blog | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media
They said it couldn't be done, but The Daily Show has beaten NBC Nightly News in the ratings, and by "ratings" I mean a softball game. Monday night, J...
Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media
Brian Williams made a loopy, entertaining appearance on "Way Too Early with Willie Geist" Thursday morning, detailing his morning routine in depth and...
Posted 08.23.2009 | Media
Anchor Brian Williams addressed the already-disproved claim that President Obama is not an American citizen last night in his Nightly News broadcast. ...
Robert Davey | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment
If Jackson was given drugs to stop his voice from dropping, then he was also the victim of a unique kind of child abuse.
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media
"NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" delivered its best week since April, averaging 8.379 million total viewers last week. Thursday night's broadca...
The Huffington Post | Posted 06.01.2009 | Living
Need some good news? NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams now does a segment called "Making A Difference" that shares stories from viewers of "rando...
MSNBC | Posted 05.29.2009 | Living
Need some good news? NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams now does a segment called "Making A Difference" that shares stories from viewers of "rando...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media
In the last month, Brian Williams has interviewed Tim Geithner on CNBC and guest-hosted on the "Today" show. Now the New York Times reports that he m...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 04.06.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — Between the drumbeat of bad economic stories, two wars and a winter that won't quit, Brian Williams knows he's been anchoring a depressin...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media
"NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams" handily won the evening news ratings race last week, beating ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" by over 1.2...
AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 03.07.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — Tough economic news and the arrival of the Obama administration have helped bring more viewers to the broadcast evening news shows, a...
David Sassoon | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green
To hear Brian Williams take a clean shot at dirty coal seemed like a signal heralding a great thaw of a long media Ice Age that has prohibited honest reporting on the fossil fuel industry.
Los Angeles Times | Matea Gold | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media
If anything could slow the inexorable decline of evening news viewership, it should have been this year's riveting presidential campaign, which produc...
Posted 12.03.2009 | Impact