Garrick Utley

Garrick Utley was a journalist and anchor who spent more than 30 years with NBC News. During that time he reported from more than 70 countries and also hosted or moderated numerous programs, including NBC Nightly News, Weekend Today and Meet the Press. 

A native of Chicago, he got his start at NBC in Brussels after graduating from Carleton College in Minnesota, serving in the Army and pursuing graduate studies at the Free University in Berlin.

Over the years Utley was NBC bureau chief in London and Paris, chief foreign correspondent and an anchor and moderator for various programs. Major news events he covered included the 1968 invasion of Prague, the 1973 Yom Kippur war, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Persian Gulf war. After leaving NBC, he worked for ABC News and CNN.

He later joined a State University of New York graduate program in international relations in Manhattan and became a senior fellow and professor of broadcasting and journalism at the State University of New York, Oswego.

His numerous professional accolades included a Peabody Award and the Overseas Press Club’s Edward R. Murrow Award, and in 2000 he published a memoir, You Should Have Been Here Yesterday: A Life in Television News.

Utley died February 21, 2014. He was 74.