George Lewis

Who is George Lewis?

George Lewis is a retired American television journalist who worked for NBC News from 1969 until 2012, working with NBC for 43 years. His stories have appeared on NBC Nightly News.

Lewis joined NBC in December 1969 as a war correspondent covering the Vietnam War. He also covered the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979-1981, the 1989 Tiananmen Square revolt in China, and Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Lewis has won three Emmys, the George Foster Peabody Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award during his career covering wars and other events abroad.

Based in Los Angeles, Lewis now regularly reports on the revolution in information technology. In 1993, he did a Nightly News series titled "Almost 2001," that marked the beginning of interactive electronic exchanges between television networks and their viewers. Those watching the reports were urged to send e-mails, some of which were read on the air. It was an early use of the word "dot-com" on a news program. He retired from NBC News on January 25, 2012.