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Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Brian Williams )〕 is an American journalist. He is best known for serving ten years as anchor and managing editor for ''NBC Nightly News'', the evening news program of the NBC television network. Nine months after taking the position in December 2004,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brian Williams )〕 he anchored NBC coverage from New Orleans of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, and NBC News won a Peabody Award for his and his colleagues' coverage of the story.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Peabody Awards – NBC News: Coverage of Hurricane Katrina )〕 As anchor of the program, he was considered one of the country's most popular and well-respected news anchors, which led to his becoming a frequent late-night talk show guest. Williams also hosted the prime time news magazine ''Rock Center with Brian Williams'', which was heavily promoted but cancelled after only two seasons. In February 2015, Williams was suspended without pay from ''Nightly News'' for "misrepresent() events which occurred while he was covering the 2003 Iraq War." A subsequent investigation by NBC found that Williams had made a "number of inaccurate statements about his own role" in events he reported over the years and in June 2015, he was reassigned to breaking news and special events coverage on MSNBC, with Lester Holt being named as the permanent anchor of ''NBC Nightly News''. Williams returned to the air on September 22, 2015, on MSNBC, anchoring the coverage of the touchdown of Pope Francis in the U.S. at the beginning of his six-day visit. ==Early life== Williams was born in Middletown Township, New Jersey,〔 and reared in a "boisterous" Irish Catholic home. 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Address by Brian Williams — Commencement 2015 – Bates College )〕 His mother was an amateur stage actress.〔 Williams is the youngest of four siblings. He lived in Elmira, New York, for ten years before moving to Middletown, New Jersey, when he was in junior high school.〔Strauss, Robert. ("IN PERSON; The Life Of Brian, Annotated" ), ''The New York Times'', October 27, 2002. Retrieved June 13, 2011: "Mr. Williams grew up in Mom-apple-pie-and-TV-trays style in Middletown, Monmouth County, a town of true middle class.... Mr. Williams, who was in junior high when the family moved there from Elmira, N.Y., was an average student who had his eyes on fast cars, fun summer jobs and hanging out at the local fire station, where he became a volunteer firefighter."〕 Williams graduated from Mater Dei High School, a Roman Catholic high school in the New Monmouth section of Middletown. While in high school, he was a volunteer firefighter for three years at the Middletown Township Fire Department. Also while in high school, he was the Editorial Editor for the school newspaper. He suffered an accident during a football game which left him with a crooked nose. His first job was as a busboy at Perkins Pancake House.〔''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', Friday, May 22, 2009.〕 After high school Williams attended Brookdale Community College, after which he transferred to The Catholic University of America and then George Washington University. He did not graduate and instead interned with the administration of President Jimmy Carter. He later called leaving college early one of his "great regrets."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Remarks by Brian Williams. Tulane University Commencement )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian Williams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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