Ben Brown Biography
Ben Brown is a British journalist and news presenter for BBC News, the BBC’s rolling news channel. Ben Brown is a BBC News at One relief presenter who also hosts the 9 a.m.-2 p.m. shift on Sundays, including BBC Weekend News on BBC One. Ben can also be seen on Mondays and Tuesdays from 4 to 7 p.m., except ‘BBC News at Six.’
How old is Ben Brown? – Age
Ben is 61 years old as of 26 May 2021. He was born Benjamin Russell Brown in 1960 in Ashford, United Kingdom.
Ben Brown Family
He is the son of the ITN newscaster Antony Brown. Brown was a member of the debate squad in high school and finished second in the national debating finals. He was awarded an Open Scholarship to Keble College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics before graduating with honors from the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies. He began his career as a reporter for Radio Clyde in Glasgow and afterward moved on to Radio City in Liverpool.
Ben Brown Marriage
He is married to Hester Mary MacKinnon. The couple has three children.
Ben Brown Net Worth
Ben has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Ben Brown Career
Brown joined Independent Radio News in 1986, where he covered big news ranging from superpower summits to the Hungerford massacre. He joined BBC TV News two years later and worked as a Foreign Affairs Correspondent until 1991, reporting from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Gulf War.
In 1991, he was assigned Moscow Correspondent, where he saw the final collapse of Communism and the assassination of Mikhail Gorbachev. He was in the Russian Parliament when troops loyal to President Boris Yeltsin seized it in 1993, and he was in Chechnya when the civil war began the following year.
His coverage of the fighting earned him several international honors, including the Bayeux War Correspondent of the Year Award and the Monte-Carlo Television Festival’s Golden Nymph Award. Brown returned to his roving post as a foreign correspondent stationed in London in January 1995. He covered the disintegration of Yugoslavia extensively, reporting from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Kosovo, where his tales helped the BBC win several accolades, including a BAFTA. For his coverage of the Israeli Intifada, he received the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents for the second time in 2001.
Brown was most recently attached with British forces in the Iraq War in 2003. In his book, The Battle for Iraq, Ben writes of his experiences, including how a British soldier saved his life by opening fire on an Iraqi militiaman who was ready to shoot Ben in the rear with a rocket-propelled grenade. Ben covered the first Gulf War in 1991, and his book, All Necessary Means, was also published at the time.
Brown was chastised by viewers in December 2010 for using a “very accusing” tone in an interview with Jody McIntyre, a political activist with cerebral palsy who had been yanked from his wheelchair by Metropolitan Police officers during a student protest march across London.
