Brian Williams, former anchor of MSNBC's "The 11th Hour with Brian Williams" and "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams," came to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus to discuss the evolution of broadcast news in America.

The conversation was led by Colleen King, director of the Richard and Leslie Frank Center for Leadership and Innovation in Media and clinical assistant professor of journalism. King worked closely with Williams as his executive producer of "The 11th Hour."

A 40-year veteran of television news, Williams has received a dozen Emmy Awards, 11 Edward R. Murrow Awards, the duPont-Columbia Award, the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the industry’s highest honor: the George Foster Peabody Award.

This event was presented by the Richard and Leslie Frank Center for Leadership and Innovation in Media. Learn more: https://media.illinois.edu/frankcenter

Recorded on October 23, 2023.