George Lewis (journalist)

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George Lewis (born 1943) is an American television journalist for NBC News. His stories have appeared on NBC Nightly News.

Lewis joined NBC in 1970 as a war correspondent covering the Vietnam War. During his career, 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.^[1]

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 the first time most viewers heard news anchors use the term "dot-com."^{[citation needed]}