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By Drew Grant 9/06/12 1:20pm

Tom Brokaw Takes Ambien Before Morning Joe

This just in from today’s DNC coverage: Tom Brokaw accidentally ate half an Ambien before appearing on Morning Joe. He’s O.K., though!

Cue the music: Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 1/28/12 6:19pm

Mitt Romney Makes Tom Brokaw ‘Extremely Uncomfortable’

NBC and Tom Brokaw have criticized Mitt Romney’s campaign for using NBC Nightly News footage from 1997 in a Newt Gingrich attack ad.

“The NBC Legal Department has written a letter to the campaign asking for the removal of all NBC News material from their campaign ads,” NBC News said in a statement to Politico, adding that a similar note had gone out to all other campaigns that had used NBC materials. Read More

By Matt Chaban 6/24/11 11:17am

Manhattan Transfers

Brokaw Lassos Another Journalist for 941 Park Sprawl

Rancher Tom Brokaw and his wife Miss South Dakota Meredith Auld Brokaw recently downsized their New York spread, buying a two-bedroom co-op at 33 East 79th Street. Their 10-room duplex at 941 Park Avenue went into contract back in April, but this being a New York City co-op, these things take time. The Read More

By Matt Chaban 5/20/11 8:39pm

Manhattan Transfers

Tom Brokaw Changes Channels From Park to East 79th

This just in: Tom Brokaw is not leaving Manhattan.

That was the open question in April, when the former Nightly News anchor and his wife, Meredith Auld Brokaw, an author and former Miss South Dakota, found a buyer for their 10-room duplex at 941 Park Avenue. The Journal noted that Mr. Brokaw had helped Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 4/26/11 11:13pm

The Transom

Maggie’s Best Betts: Downtown Girl Makes a Documentary–and It’s Good!

Fareed Zakaria was hanging at the downtown haunt Kenmare on Thursday night, raving about Maggie Betts’ new documentary The Carrier, the story of an H.I.V.-positive pregnant woman in Zambia working to keep her baby healthy.

“It’s breathtaking,” the Time editor at large told the Transom. “Her parents are good friends,” he added of Chelsea Piers Read More

By Felix Gillette 12/04/09 10:46pm

Tom Brokaw Survives Scary Highway Accident Unscathed

NBC News pater familias Tom Brokaw and his wife Meredith survived a serious scare on Friday afternoon, sources tell The Observer, when their car was involved in a three car accident on the Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx.

The accident, which primarily involved an SUV and a postal truck, left one person dead, according to Read More

By Felix Gillette 4/08/09 6:02pm

Cry, The Beloved Anchors

A video gallery of newsmen and women Read More

By Felix Gillette 1/20/09 7:17pm

Atlantic Publisher David Bradley Fêtes ‘Beloved’ Gwen Ifill on Inauguration Eve

On the evening of Monday, January 19th, the publisher David Bradley, stood in the opulent living room of his Georgian mansion off of Embassy Row in Washington D.C., across the road from the Naval Observatory, and spoke of existential angst.

"All of us have those middle of the night sentiments of, ‘Does any of Read More

By Caroline Bankoff 12/31/08 3:00pm

Transom Year in Review 2008: Parties, Fashion Shows, and Tom Wolfe on Hip-Hop

The year 2008 began with an extravagant bang and ended with a painful, economic catastrophe-induced whimper. Here, we relive some of the highlights.

We started the year worrying that pom-pomed moccasin boots were here to stay. Thankfully, we now know they were not.

Meatpacking district original Florent Morellet failed to understand the Read More

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Tom Brokaw Takes Ambien Before Morning Joe

Mitt Romney Makes Tom Brokaw ‘Extremely Uncomfortable’

Brokaw Lassos Another Journalist for 941 Park Sprawl

Tom Brokaw Changes Channels From Park to East 79th

Maggie’s Best Betts: Downtown Girl Makes a Documentary–and It’s Good!

Tom Brokaw Survives Scary Highway Accident Unscathed

Cry, The Beloved Anchors

Atlantic Publisher David Bradley Fêtes ‘Beloved’ Gwen Ifill on Inauguration Eve

Transom Year in Review 2008: Parties, Fashion Shows, and Tom Wolfe on Hip-Hop

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