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Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series to Feature Former CNN Anchor and Minnesota Native Aaron Brown
April 2, 2007
WHAT: Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalism Series features Aaron Brown, former anchor of CNN's NewsNight, for a speech entitled "Contracting Media—Expanding Need"
WHEN: Tuesday, April 17, 7–8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Alexander G. Hill Ballroom, Kagin Commons, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave, St. Paul
TICKETS: FREE, but tickets are required. Tickets can be found at all four Twin Cities Bibelot Shops locations beginning April 3.
TUNE IN: The event will be recorded for broadcast (broadcast date TBA).
MEDIA: Print, broadcast and internet journalists are welcome to attend. Please contact Jennifer Haugh at (651) 290-1369 or jhaugh@mpr.org for accommodations, including a media mult box.
Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series welcomes Aaron Brown, former anchor of NewsNight on CNN, to the Alexander G. Hill Ballroom at Kagin Commons on the campus of Macalester College on April 17.
Brown's speech, entitled "Contracting Media—Expanding Need" will discuss the challenges facing the media during this time of political, technological and social change.
About the Journalist Aaron Brown began his career at 18 hosting talk radio programs in Minneapolis near his hometown of Hopkins, Minnesota. After a short stint doing radio programs in Los Angeles he moved to Seattle, where for the next 18 years he was a reporter and anchor at KING-TV and KIRO-TV. He left Seattle in 1991 to Join ABC News, where he was the founding anchor of the programs World News Now and World News Tonight Saturday.
With ABC News, Brown covered the trial of O.J. Simpson, two California earthquakes, the shootings at Columbine, the violent struggle for democracy in Haiti, the war in Bosnia and much more for both World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and Nightline. From 2001 to 2005 Brown was anchor and managing editor of NewsNight on CNN.
Brown is the winner of three Emmys, a DuPont, two New York Film Society World medals and a George Foster Peabody. His coverage of the events surrounding September 11, 2001 earned him the coveted Edward R. Murrow Award. He currently is the John Rhodes Chair of American Policy and Public Institutions at the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University.
About the Broadcast Journalist Series Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series, now in its 11th season, commissions journalists and correspondents for a 24-hour residency four times a year. While here, they share their insights on their craft as well as on people and events that affect them professionally. Past journalists include Barbara Ehrenreich, Columnist Thomas Friedman, and NPR's Deborah Amos, Alex Chadwick, and Don Gonyea.
Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series is sponsored by Macalester College, The Bibelot Shops and Dorsey & Whitney. Minnesota Public Radio® operates a 37-station radio network serving virtually all of Minnesota and parts of surrounding states and produces programming for radio, Internet and face-to-face audiences. Programs produced by Minnesota Public Radio, operating as American Public Media™, reach 14.5 million listeners nationwide each week. Of those, more than 790,000 listen regionally, in Minnesota and surrounding states. A complete list of stations, programs and additional services can be obtained at www.mpr.org and www.americanpublicmedia.org.
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Source: Data are copyright Arbitron, Inc. Arbitron data are estimates only. Fall 2005/Spring 2006 average
Press Contacts:
Jennifer Haugh
Minnesota Public Radio
651-290-1369
jhaugh@mpr.org
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