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At 80 years old, Tom Brokaw was an active journalist for NBC from 1960 to 2021. Even though he abandoned the position of co-host of NBC Nightly News in 2004 where he made $11 million annually (adjusted for inflation), he continued to make $5 million annually from NBC for broadcasting occasional special reports.
Brokaw has a net worth of $85 million and is the only person to have hosted all three of NBC’s most popular programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and Meet the Press. He held the position of anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for 22 years, but he isn't only a journalist. In 1998, Brokaw published his first historical book titled The Greatest Generation. Plus, in 2014, then-President Barack Obama awarded Brokaw the Presidential Medal of Freedom.