Campbell Brown Biography
Campbell Brown is an Emmy Award-winning Broadcast journalist and television news reporter from the United States working as the head of global news partnerships at Facebook. She served as co-anchor of the NBC Weekend Today news show from 2003 to 2007 and anchored the Campbell Brown series on CNN from 2008 to 2010.
How old is Campbell Brown? – Age
Brown is 52 years old as of 14 June 2020. She was born Alma Dale Campbell Brown in 1968 in Ferriday, Louisiana, United States.
Campbell Brown Family – Parents
She is the daughter of James H. Brown Jr. and Dale Campbell. Alma Dale was the name of her maternal grandmother. Brown was raised as a Roman Catholic, though her father was a Presbyterian. She’s got, two sisters. Her father is the former Louisiana Democratic State Senator, Secretary of State. Brown’s family was interested in hunting, politics, and cooking.
Campbell Brown Husband – Children
She has been married twice. She is married to Dan Senor ( Daniel Samuel Senor) since April 2, 2006. The couple met in Iraq in March 2004 when Senor was the spokeswoman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Bagdad, and Brown was one of the reporters at his regular news conferences. Since Senor returned to Washington in 2004, Brown called him out. The couple married at the Beaver Creek Chapel in Beaver Creek, Colorado. They together have two sons; their firstborn son Eli James Senor was born on December 18, 2007, and Asher Liam Senor born on October 27, 2008. She was previously married to Peregrine “Pere” Roberts, who is a Washington, D.C., real estate broker.
Campbell Brown CNN
Brown hosted Campbell Brown, a weekday prime-time news show broadcast on CNN at 8 p.m. ET. Brown, the first non-partisan cable television hosted at 8 p.m., took a common-sense approach to newsgathering, interviews with newsmakers, and moderated vibrant debates and discussions with those from all points of view.
Campbell Brown NBC
She was also the chief backup for Brian Williams and the lead reporter for NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and the Weekday Today Show. For NBC, she provided award-winning coverage on Hurricane Katrina and reported the last two presidential elections and the death of Pope John Paul II. Brown made several trips to Iraq to report on Iraqi elections, violations at Abu Ghraib prison, and the trial of Saddam Hussein. She has also traveled to Gaza and the West Bank to cover developments in the Middle East.
Brown worked as a White House reporter for NBC News during President George W. Bush’s first term in office. She covered Bush’s first presidential race and spent more than a month focusing on the post-election story from Austin, Texas. Prior to the Bush campaign, Brown had been a Washington, D.C. reporter for NBC News. Brown joined the network in 1998 and was first assigned to cover the prosecution of President Bill Clinton. After that, she was assigned to the Pentagon, reporting on the Kosovo war. Brown flew frequently with Clinton during her tenure in the Washington office.
Campbell Brown Net Worth
Brown’s net worth is not revealed for she has not revealed her wealth records.
Campbell Brown Politics
Brown has been a strong voice for school choice and “education reform” She founded the Parents Advocacy Initiative, a watchdog organization on behalf of parents demanding knowledge and oversight from the teachers’ unions and the New York Department of Education. Brown has focused on changing teacher tenure practices in the court system. She wrote a series of op-eds expressing her enthusiasm for the successful Vergara v. California case in 2014, which reversed California’s tenure, firing, and seniority policies. Brown launched a website, CommonSenseContract.com, in April 2014, to impact New York City’s contract talks with the United Federation of Teachers.
Campbell Brown The 74
Brown co-founded The 74 in July 2015, a non-profit news platform covering education in America, drawing its name from the fact that there are nearly 74 million children under the age of 18 in the United States. The 74 provides grants from a number of charter school support organizations, including the Walton Family Foundation, the Doris & Donald Fisher Fund, and Bloomberg Philanthropy. According to an article in the LA Times, the detractors accuse The 74 of being pro-charter and anti-union.