Ned Brooks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American journalist
Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1901
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1969
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Ned Brooks
- Ned Brooks (August 13, 1901 – April 13, 1969) was an American television and radio journalist who was moderator of NBC's Meet the Press on television from 1953 until 1965, and earlier on radio.
- Brooks is the second-longest tenured moderator of the program, after Tim Russert. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, he was raised in Warren, Ohio, and attended public schools there.
- He was a 1924 graduate of The Ohio State University where he became a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.
- He began his career in newspaper reporting in Ohio at the Ohio State Journal and for Scripps-Howard newspapers for whom he covered Congress from 1932 until 1947.
- For five years he was managing editor of the Youngstown (Ohio) Telegram.
- He was later a broadcaster for Three-Star Extra, carried on NBC radio (but produced by the ad agency for its sponsor, Sunoco).
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