Jeffrey Brown Biography
Jeffrey Brown is a senior correspondent for PBS NewsHour in the United States. Brown has worked for the NewsHour for over 30 years, serving as co-anchor, studio moderator, and field reporter on a wide range of national and international problems.
Jeffrey Brown Age
He was born on July 1975, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America. He is 48 years old as of July 2023.
Jeffrey Brown Education
Brown earned a bachelor’s degree in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley. He intended to obtain a Ph.D. later in order to become an academic, but he ultimately decided to become a law journalist. Brown attended both Berkeley Law and the Columbia Journalism School. He first studied law for two years before moving on to journalism for a year. Brown has a master’s degree in journalism but did not complete law school. Brown got an honorary degree (D.H.L.) from Wesley College in 2010 after delivering the graduating address there.
Jeffrey Brown Family
Brown was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America, and grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts, he is the son of Morton Brown and Mirriam “Micki” Brown (née Decter). He has four siblings.
Is Jeffrey Brown Married?- Wife
Brown is married to artist, educator, and author Paula Crawford. They met while both attending UC Berkeley and had two children. Brown currently resides in Arlington, Virginia.
Jeffrey Brown PBS NewsHour
Brown went on to work as a producer for the Columbia University Seminars on Media & Society, a television production firm directed by Friendly, after graduating. For a few years, Brown assisted in the production and writing of public television seminars on topics such as ethics, law, foreign policy, and the Constitution. Following that, in 1988, Brown joined the PBS NewsHour, which was then known as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. He was employed as an off-camera economics reporter in New York City and relocated to Washington, D.C. eight years later. Brown began her career as a reporter and producer before being elevated to senior producer for national affairs. In 1998, he began working as an on-camera correspondent.
Brown was appointed as the NewsHour’s arts correspondent in March 2002, when the job was created. Three years later, Brown was elevated to senior correspondent. The NewsHour began a blog named “Art Beat” in December 2008, covering arts and culture and written by Brown and other NewsHour correspondents. When The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer was rebranded PBS NewsHour in December 2009, Brown joined the anchor team; Jim Lehrer was joined every show by either Judy Woodruff, Gwen Ifill, or Brown. After Lehrer stepped down in June 2012, the program was hosted on a rotational basis by Woodruff, Ifill, Brown, Ray Suarez, and Margaret Warner. That arrangement came to an end in September 2013, when Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff took over as the sole anchors.
Brown co-hosted the NewsHour series “Where Poetry Lives” with Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey from September 2012 to May 2014. They toured across the United States, reporting on societal challenges through the perspective of poetry. Brown began hosting the NewsHour series “Culture at Risk” examining threatened heritage in the United States and around the world in 2014. He has reported for that series from a variety of locations, including Myanmar, Peru, Mali, Nepal (following the April 2015 earthquake), Cuba, Italy, Spain, Tunisia, and South Africa. Brown became the host of the PBS NewsHour’s “Now Read This” monthly book club, which was started in cooperation with The New York Times in 2018.
In addition to covering arts, culture, and society, Brown has occasionally reported on science and politics throughout his years as an arts correspondent for the NewsHour. He co-anchored coverage of President Obama’s second inauguration, for example, and has participated in election night coverage of the 2008, 2012, and 2016 presidential elections. Brown has also published The News, a poetry collection that features 45 poems on television reporting, things he observed while reporting, and personal events in his life. Copper Canyon Press published it in May 2015, and poet Robert Pinsky wrote the foreword. In a review for The Washington Post, Elizabeth Lund said of the anthology, “knows how to tell a narrative.
Jeffrey Brown Honors- Awards
Brown has received numerous honors, including a News & Documentary Emmy, a Peabody Award, and several CINE Golden Eagle Awards. In 1999, an Emmy for “Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story – (Segments)” was given to a segment concerning an antitrust case against Microsoft, and in 2003, a Peabody Award was given to a broadcast about the unemployment rate. Both portions were created by Brown. Brown received a CINE Golden Eagle Award in 2002 for his arts coverage on the NewsHour. In the years that followed, a number of segments earned Golden Eagles, including “Intelligent Design v. Evolution” (2005), “Doubt” (2005), “Blues Master: B.B. King” (2006), “Death is on Hold/Connecting with Kids” (2007), and “Haitian Artists Create Poetry Amid Rubble” (2008).
Jeffrey Brown’s Net Worth
Brown has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.