Journalist
Garrick Utley has worked for over 40 years as a broadcast journalist on NBC, ABC, CNN, as well as Public Radio and Public Television. With a primary focus on international affairs, Utley has reported from more than seventy-five countries. As a network anchor, he was a familiar face on the evening news and Sunday morning programs. Currently, he is the President of the Neil D. Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce of The State University of New York.
While working for NBC, Utley became the first full-time correspondent to cover the Vietnam War, and would go on to serve as anchor of the weekend editions of NBC Nightly News, the host of the Sunday edition of Today, and the moderator of Meet The Press. He has received several of broadcast journalism’s most respected honors, including the Overseas Press Club’s Edward R. Murrow award, and the George Foster Peabody award, and is the author of “You Should Have Been Here Yesterday,” a book about the growth of television news in the United States. Utley has served on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is the Chairman of the American Council on Germany.