Education
Ohio State University.
Ohio State University.
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 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.
Foreign five years he was managing editor of the Youngstown (Ohio) Telegram.
He was later a broadcaster for National Broadcasting Company"s Three-Star Extra.
He was a 1924 graduate of The Ohio State University where he became a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.