David McClure Brinkley was a popular American television newscaster for NBC and later ABC. From 1956 through 1970 he co-anchored NBC's top rated nightly news program, "The Huntley–Brinkley Report" with Chet Huntley. In 1970, the broadcast was renamed "NBC Nightly News," with Brinkley, John Chancellor, and Frank McGee coanchoring. Later, in the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was a top commentator on election coverage for ABC News, … Wikipedia
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Brinkley was among the last of a generation of reporters who got their basic training at newspapers and wire services, then made their name in the new medium of television. www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archiv...
Most complete for the period 1965-1969, the files contain reactions to particular broadcasts of the Huntley-Brinkley Report , David Brinkley's Journal , and other programs. digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/ead-idx?c=shs&id=uw-whs...
Today Reuven Frank, producer and creator of Huntley-Brinkley, offered me a job as contact man, reporter and field producer-- without title---for David Brinkley in Washington. digitaljournalist.org/issue0512/assign/rs_brinkley0512.htm
