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Aaron Brown

Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism

Arizona State University

Aaron Brown is renowned for his reporting of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center for CNN, for which he won the coveted Edward R. Murrow Award. In addition, Brown has also won three Emmys, a DuPont, two New York Film Society World medals and a George Foster Peabody Award.

Brown began his career hosting talk radio programs in Minneapolis. For eighteen years he was a reporter and anchor at KING TV and KIRO TV. He left in 1991 to join ABC News and was a founding anchor for ABC’s “World News Now.” Later he anchored “World News Tonight Saturday”, and was a correspondent for “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings”.

At CNN, Brown hosted the “NewsNight with Aaron Brown”. In 2006, Brown held the John J. Rhodes Chair in Public Policy and American Institutions at Barrett Honors College at ASU. Brown also serves as anchor of “Wide Angle,” PBS’ weekly global public affairs series.

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