He is a legendary journalist and is respected by everyone in the journalism field. He is none other than the very intellectual and very respectful Tom Brokaw. He was born in the year 1940 on 6th of February and this makes his age 75 at this time. At this age, there is nothing he has not achieved in his career and after being so successful; he is still a very humble person. He was born in a place called Webster, which lies in South Dakota of United States of America. As he was born in America, his nationality is obviously American. According to some sources, his ethnicity is white. The names of his parents are Eugenia Brokaw and Anthony Orville Brokaw.
Talking about his physical appearance, he is a very tall man as he has a gigantic height of 1.83 meters, which is around 6 feet. His hair color is salt and pepper. He has been very successful in his career and his earnings do prove that. He has a jaw dropping net worth of $70 million dollars and this proves how successful he has been in his career.
Talking about his personal life, it has been as healthy as his bank balance and as complete as his career. He was dating his girlfriend Maredith Lynn Auld before the couple decided to get married and live happily as husband and wife. The couple got married in the year 1962 and till today there has been no speculation of their divorce, which proves how strong their relationship as husband and wife, is. He is not gay at all as he is married to a woman from more than 40 years now. He has a total of three children and all of them are his daughters. The names of his children are Jennifer Jean Brokaw, Andrea Brooks Brokaw and the last one is Sarah Brokaw.
As he is a legend, it is quite obvious that information on him and his legendary biography can be easily grabbed from popular wiki sites such as Wikipedia. His inspiring biography has so much to offer for youngsters and they can learn a lot from it.
Talking about his influence in social networking sites, he is active in Twitter and quite involved too. He has already tweeted in Twitter more than 120 times till today. He has a very warm 92.4 thousand followers in Twitter and this proves how popular he has been in the site. His Twitter account is verified and this means he is the one using this account. He has been following more than 20 people and pages in the site. He joined the huge social networking site in the year 2011.
In his long career he has served for many TV channels and networks. His books and speeches have been huge as well. From the year 1960 to the year 1962 he worked as a newscaster, staff announcer and weatherman for a channel called KTIV-TV. Other channels, TV shows and programs he has served till today are NBC News, Today Show and Meet the Press.