Aaron Brown (born November 10, 1948) is an American broadcast journalist most recognized for his coverage of the September 11, 2001 attacks, his first day on air at CNN. He was a longtime reporter for ABC, the founding host of ABC's World News Now, weekend anchor of World News Tonight and the host of CNN's flagship evening program NewsNight with Aaron Brown. He is currently the anchor for PBS' Wide Angle documentary series, the host of a public radio program The Aaron Brown Show, and a professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Link titleThe name Hopkins may refer to: // Andrew Hopkins, footballer, super-salesman, hard man and stud Antony Hopkins, a composer Anthony Hopkins, an actor Bernard Hopkins, a professional boxer Constance Hopkins, Mayflower passenger and first Town Clerk of Eastham, Massachusetts Frank Hopkins (Frank T. Hopkins), a U.S. cowboy Frank... Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Largest metro area Minneapolis-St. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... Broadcast journalism refers to television news and radio news, as well as the online news outlets of broadcast affiliates. ... NewsNight with Aaron Brown and Anderson Cooper, is broadcast on weeknights on CNN and is hosted by Aaron Brown and Anderson Cooper. ... ABC World News Tonight is the ABC television networks flagship evening news program. ... Good Morning America Weekend Edition is a weekend edition of ABC morning show Good Morning America. ... Nightline is a late-night hard and soft news program broadcast by ABC in the United States, and has a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. ... More insomniacs get their news from World News Now vanity card; clear parody of the late 1990s More Americans get their news from ABC News bumpers. ... is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Broadcast journalism refers to television news and radio news, as well as the online news outlets of broadcast affiliates. ... A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... More insomniacs get their news from World News Now vanity card; clear parody of the late 1990s More Americans get their news from ABC News bumpers. ... ABC World News Tonight is the ABC television networks flagship evening news program. ... The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... NewsNight with Aaron Brown and Anderson Cooper, is broadcast on weeknights on CNN and is hosted by Aaron Brown and Anderson Cooper. ... Wide Angle is a weekly one-hour PBS series hosted by Bill Moyers and broadcast via the WNET PBS station since 2002. ... The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication (often abbreviated to Cronkite School by its students), is one of the 24 independent school units at Arizona State University. ...

Prior to Major Networks

In the late 1960's Brown dropped out of the University of Minnesota as a political science major and signed up for active duty in the Coast Guard. Before his time at the national news networks, Brown became a Seattle broadcasting staple. He worked as a reporter and anchor for ten years at KING-TV and later moved to KIRO-TV where he anchored the evening newscast. KING-TV (KING 5) is a television station in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is affiliated with the NBC network, and broadcasts on analog VHF channel 5 and digital UHF channel 48. ... KIRO-TV is the CBS television affiliate in Seattle, Washington. ...

At ABC

Brown was brought to New York to be the founding anchor of the late-night news program World News Now. He also worked as a reporter for ABC's news operation. He left World News Now to work as a reporter for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, as well as Nightline and various other ABC programming. He became the substitute anchor for Jennings and the permanent anchor of ABC's World News Tonight Saturday and Good Morning America Sunday. This article is about the state. ... More insomniacs get their news from World News Now vanity card; clear parody of the late 1990s More Americans get their news from ABC News bumpers. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American television network. ... ABC World News Tonight is the ABC television networks flagship evening news program. ... Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. ... Nightline is a late-night hard and soft news program broadcast by ABC in the United States, and has a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. ...

9/11

Brown's first day at CNN was September 11, 2001. He received international recognition for his reporting of the attacks from CNN's rooftop in Manhattan, as well as the World Trade Center site and the areas surrounding the remains of the Twin Towers in New York City. When the South Tower collapsed he interrupted a field reporter and uttered the words "I cannot see the tower." As the second tower fell on live television, Brown fell silent, until he quietly said, "...good Lord...there are no words..." and resumed reporting after several seconds. Brown won the coveted Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the attacks. A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly... The World Trade Center site destruction, 2001 The World Trade Center site is the 16 acre (65,000 m²) real estate on which the WTC complex stood in New York until the September 11, 2001 attacks. ... For other uses, see World Trade Center (disambiguation). ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ...

At CNN

CNN saw Brown as a protégé of Peter Jennings and wanted to duplicate Jennings' success for their network. CNN branded their flagship evening program NewsNight With Aaron Brown. Brown also served as host of CNN Presents and was assigned the lead anchor during breaking news and special events. The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ... NewsNight with Aaron Brown and Anderson Cooper, is broadcast on weeknights on CNN and is hosted by Aaron Brown and Anderson Cooper. ...

He covered numerous other news events for CNN, including the War on Terrorism, the 2002 House and Senate elections, the Beltway sniper attacks and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Brown anchored from the CNN Center in Atlanta, providing viewers with the latest information from frontline reports as well as from Washington, D.C. and United States Central Command in Doha, Qatar. The War on Terrorism (also known as the War on Terror) is campaign begun by the Bush administration which includes various military, political, and legal actions taken to ostensibly curb the spread of terrorism following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. ... Dark Blue Indicates Democrat Hold, Light Blue Indicates Democrat Gain, Dark Red Indicates Republican Hold, Light Red Indicates Republican Gain, Gray Indicates Independent Hold. ...  Republican hold  Republican pickup  Democratic holdhttp://en. ... Locations of the 15 sniper attacks numbered chronologically. ... For further information about Columbias mission and crew, see STS-107. ... This article is about the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ... The CNN Center is the world headquarters of the Cable News Network (CNN). ... This article is about the state capital of Georgia. ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) is a theater-level Unified Combatant Command unit of the U.S. armed forces, established in 1983 under the operational control of the U.S. Secretary of Defense. ... For other uses, see Doha (disambiguation). ...

In 2003, he garnered negative press attention for continuing to play in the Bob Hope Classic golf tournament in Palm Desert, California, after the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster occurred. While other major news anchors such as Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and Dan Rather immediately left their vacations, Brown did not come into the studio and instead continued playing golf. He was quoted in the Detroit News as saying he "didn't have any clothes." The New York Times reported that Brown had actually been trying to get back to the studios, but CNN didn't go to special lengths to move Mr. Brown into position because Miles O'Brien, the channel's space expert, was anchoring the unfolding events.^[1] The Bob Hope Chrysler Classic is a PGA Tour golf tournament played each January in Californias Coachella Valley. ... Palm Desert is a city in Riverside County, California, in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs area), approximately 11 miles east of Palm Springs in the Coachella Valley. ... Thomas John Brokaw (born February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakota) is a popular American television journalist, Previously working on regularly scheduled news documentaries for the NBC television network, and is the former NBC News anchorman and managing editor of the program NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. ... Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American journalist and news anchor. ... Daniel Irvin Rather, Jr. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

During the United States 2004 presidential election, CNN used the NASDAQ Market Site for its election coverage, which some point to as the birth of the idea for Wolf Blitzer's The Situation Room. Brown was tasked to periodically make commentaries on the trends of the evening's results, while Anderson Cooper was then tasked at monitoring key Senate and House races. NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... Wolf Blitzer (born March 22, 1948 in Buffalo, New York) is an American journalist and author. ... This article is about the CNN news program. ... Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an Emmy Award winning American journalist, author, and television personality. ...  Republican holds  Republican pickups  Democratic holds  Democratic pickups The United States Senate election, 2004 was an election for one-third of the seats in the United States Senate which coincided with the re-election of George W. Bush as president and the United States House election, as well as many... Summary of party change of U.S. house seats in the 2004 House election. ...

Brown won three Emmys, including one Emmy for his report "Streets of Iraq" during the Iraq War. In addition, Brown won a DuPont, two New York Film Society World medals and a George Foster Peabody Award.

On November 3, 2005, CNN announced that Brown would be leaving the network, with Anderson Cooper's program Anderson Cooper 360° replacing NewsNight as the flagship program in CNN's evening lineup in an effort to improve low ratings. The two had shared anchoring duties in the 10:00 PM time slot through the early fall after Cooper's break out success covering Hurricane Katrina. Many said Brown's cerebral "news for grown-ups" style would be missed, while others found him lacking.^[2][3] is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an Emmy Award winning American journalist, author, and television personality. ... Anderson Cooper 360° (commonly shortened to either AC-360 or 360 and rarely spoken with the word degrees, despite the use of the degree symbol in the title) is a two-hour television news show on CNN, the first hour always broadcast live, hosted by Anderson Cooper. ... This article is about the Atlantic hurricane of 2005. ...

In Academia

In 2006 Brown assumed the John J. Rhodes Chair in Public Policy and American Institutions at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University. In Spring 2007 he co-taught a course called "Turning Points in Television News History." The class became popular with students at the university and the next year he became a permanent instructor at the Cronkite School, teaching television history. He is serving as the inaugural 'Walter Cronkite Professor' for the college.

Public Broadcasting

Brown was under contract with CNN until June 2007, which prevented him from doing interviews or returning to television. ^[4]. In 2008 he will return to television as the host of PBS' Wide Angle. Brown will serve as the anchor of the series and will also do reports from the field. ^[5]. In May 2008 he began hosting a radio program, The Aaron Brown Show, based out of NPR's Arizona Affiliate KJZZ. Wide Angle is a weekly one-hour PBS series hosted by Bill Moyers and broadcast via the WNET PBS station since 2002. ... KJZZ is a UHF television station serving Salt Lake City, Utah and surrounding areas. ...

References

External links

• The Aaron Brown Show
• News Article - "Former CNN anchor Brown welcomes job at ASU"
• "Cooper to Replace Brown on CNN's NewsNight", 11.02.05
• TV Week article
• 2006 Commencement Address at Macalester College