Tom Brokaw, who served for more than 20 years as NBC Nightly News anchor, met informally with Hamilton students and the staff of the student newspaper, The Spectator, before his public lecture at the College on April 27. Students from history, public policy and sociology classes had the opportunity to ask Brokaw questions on a number of topics, including education and the experiences that had the most impact on him as a reporter.

Brokaw then delighted the Spectator staff by dropping in for a visit as the students were finalizing the next day's issue. He told the student writers and editors, "The quality that will help you most is learning to write."

 

Brokaw noted,  "The Internet is changing everything. You're competing with many more media that I ever had to," he noted. "It'll be finding the right intersection of old and new forms of media. It will require people to put news on the Internet and the newspaper page in a way that people will understand and be engaged," Brokaw said.

Brokaw delivered a public lecture at Hamilton Thursday evening in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House.