Award-winning CNN anchor Aaron Brown has died at age 76.
Brown died Sunday, in keeping with his household, the information community introduced on Tuesday.
The published journalist received widespread popularity of his protection of the Sept. 11, 2001, assaults on the World Commerce Middle in New York Metropolis ― his very first on-air look for CNN. Brown had not initially been slated to go on air however received pulled in amid the frenzy of breaking information, reporting from the roof of the community’s workplace in Manhattan, the community mentioned in its obituary.
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He received the Edward R. Murrow Award for his protection of the terrorist assaults.
Brown labored in native TV information in Seattle for greater than a decade earlier than becoming a member of ABC Information as a founding anchor for its late-night “World Information Now,” which started airing in 1992. He joined CNN in July 2001, a number of months earlier than the on-air look that may turn out to be a serious a part of his legacy.
“When he was reside on air, he simply stopped and checked out it. And paused,” CNN’s John Vause mentioned in Brown’s obituary, recalling his colleague’s reporting on 9/11. “And he shared this second that everyone was considering, ‘Good Lord. There aren’t any phrases.’”
CNN host Michael Smerconish, writing for JHB’s contributor platform in 2007, mentioned his reminiscence of 9/11 would all the time be “entwined” with the picture of Brown “standing on a New York rooftop in sensible sunshine in opposition to a smoldering backdrop.”
Brown went on to cowl a number of main information occasions for CNN, together with the sniper assaults within the Washington, D.C., space in 2002 and the catastrophic lack of area shuttle Columbia in 2003. He anchored “NewsNight With Aaron Brown,” and his CNN obit credited him with serving a “pivotal function in shaping the community’s night information format.”
However the community changed Brown in 2005 with rising star Anderson Cooper, although Brown remained below CNN contract and thus was unable to work for any of its opponents till 2007. After the contract was up, he hosted the PBS documentary present “Huge Angle” till the collection led to 2009.
Following his tenure at CNN, Brown had some blunt criticisms of the evolution of cable information.
“I used to be very uncomfortable on the finish with the place they needed it to go,” he mentioned in 2008 of his closing days at “NewsNight.” “I didn’t assume the viewers have been behind me once we did dumb tv.”
In 2010, the information veteran lamented that CNN may very well be “the envy of any information group on the planet” however that it couldn’t “achieve a world the place folks need information to be entertaining.”
Brown leaves behind his spouse, Charlotte Raynor, and daughter, Gabby.