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Brinkley was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, where he began writing for a local newspaper, the Wilmington Morning Star, while still attending New Hanover High School. He attended the University of North Carolina, Emory University, and Vanderbilt UniversityVanderbilt University is a private, independent university located in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded as the result of a gift of one million dollars by shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1873. He hoped that this gift and the work of th before entering service in the United States ArmyThe Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. As of fiscal year 2002 (FY02), it consisted of 480,000 soldiers on active duty and 555,000 in reserve (350,000 in Army National G. Following his discharge in 19431943 is the common year starting on Friday. Events January January 4 End of term for Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California. He is succeeded by Earl Warren. January 11 The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. January 1, he moved to Washington, DCWashington, DC officially the District of Columbia (also known as DC Washington and, historically, the Federal City is the capital city and administrative district of the United States of America. Residents of the city and its surrounding suburbs refer to looking for a radio job at CBSCBS Columbia Broadcasting System is a major radio and television network in the United States. CBS was one of the three commercial television networks that dominated broadcasting in the United States before the rise of cable television. In the days of rad News. Instead, he took a job at NBC News and became its first White HouseThis page is about the official residence of the President of the USA. For other White Houses see White House (disambiguation). See also 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical . The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President correspondent.

1952 had seen the birth of a electronic journalism star when Walter CronkiteWalter Leland Cronkite Jr. born November 4, 1916) is an American journalist, best known for his work as a television news anchorman. During his tenure at CBS Evening News he was often called "the most trusted man in America. Indeed, his current biography anchored CBS's political conventions coverage. In 1956, NBC News executives were looking for their own breakout newsbiz star. In trying to determine which one of two would make the best anchor for NBC's political convention coverage, a impasse arose. Half of NBC's news executives wanted Chet Huntley as solo anchor; the other half wanted Brinkley. According to Reuven Frank, a brainstorm happened: why not have two anchors instead of one? That insight led to Brinkley's paring with Huntley to cover the Democratic and Republican national conventions.

The match worked so well that the two took over NBC's flagship nightly newscast, with Huntley in New York and Brinkley in Washington, DC, for the newly christened Huntley-Brinkley Report. Brinkley's dry wit offset the serious tone set by Huntley, and the program proved popular with audiences turned off by the incessantly serious tone of CBS's news broadcasts of that era. The Huntley-Brinkley Report was America's most popular television newscast until it was overtaken and the end of the 1960s by the CBS Evening News, anchored by Walter Cronkite.

When Huntley retired in 1970, the show was renamed NBC Nightly News, and Brinkley co-anchored the broadcast with John Chancellor. Later, he became the program's commentator. However, the show was never as popular as it had been with Huntley. For its part, NBC attempted to launch newsmagazine shows during the 1970s with Brinkley as anchor. None of them succeeded. An unhappy Brinkley left NBC in 1981.

Almost immediately after leaving NBC, Brinkley was offered a job at ABC, where he began hosting a Sunday morning talk show, This Week with David Brinkley, which featured several correspondents and interviews with a guest newsmaker, followed by an opinionated roundtable of discussion. The format proved highly successful and soon spawned imitators.

Brinkley stepped down from This Week on November 10, 1996. He had been an electronic journalist for over 50 years and had been anchor or host of a daily or weekly national television program for just over 40 years, longer than anyone else.

The full title of Brinkley's 1995 autobiography sums up what he had seen during his legendary broadcasting career: "David Brinkley: 11 Presidents, 4 Wars, 22 Political Conventions, 1 Moon Landing, 3 Assassinations, 2,000 Weeks of News and Other Stuff on Television and 18 Years of Growing Up in North Carolina."

During his career, he won 10 Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards and, in 1992, President George H. W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Bush called him "the elder statesman of broadcast journalism," but Brinkley was much more humble. In an interview in 1992, he said, "Most of my life, I've simply been a reporter covering things, and writing and talking about it."

Brinkley died at the age of 82 in his home in Houston, Texas from complications after a fall.

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