NBC News, after the storm: Williams focused on Katrina more than the competition did. Now what?(Brian Williams)

Broadcasting & Cable, November, 2005 by Tyndall, Andrew

Peter Jennings had the siege of Sarajevo. Tom Brokaw had the Greatest Generation. Brokaw's successor at NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams, is approaching the Dec. 2 anniversary of his taking over the anchor chair and has already staked a claim to the signature story of his tenure: Hurricane Katrina.

Williams had the foresight to position himself in the New Orleans Superdome as the storm arrived, before what might have been just another hurricane story turned into an epic calamity following the breaching of that city's levees.

It took Williams only five days after that to decide that Katrina had transformed the news agenda. This is what he wrote in his newscast's blog, The Daily Nightly: "It is ever more apparent--and remember, we've been seeing...

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