New York (CNN Business) Tom Brokaw is formally retiring from NBC News after an extraordinary 55 years with the network. Brokaw, 80, is best known for anchoring the "NBC Nightly News" from 1982 through 2004. "He went on to become NBC News' White House correspondent, co-hosted 'Today,' and eventually became the anchor and managing editor of 'NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.'" The "NBC Nightly News" regularly ranked in first place in the ratings with Brokaw at the helm. In 2018 news outlets published allegations by Linda Vester , a former NBC reporter, that Brokaw sexually harassed her in the early 1990s.

Source: CNN January 22, 2021 19:10 UTC