I know he was on PBS for a while, but I'm not sure what he's up to now. He was seriously great.

His first day at CNN in the big time.

I read his wikipedia this morning.

[link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Brown_(journalist)|

He also didn't over report the news.

Too cerebral for the style CNN wanted to present.

Ted Koppel was good at the thoughtful style, too.

He was very old school. Not a lot of bells and whistles, but a sane and sober reporting of the news. Plus he was very likable as well. After Judy Woodruff and Aaron Brown were let go, I started watching MSNBC more and more. Now I rarely ever turn on CNN.

I think he's teaching now.

It wasn't the same after he left.

Don't know if that has happened. Seems like Wolf has the most air time. Can't imagine younger people groking Wolf.

He always reported straight news. Though I remember suspecting he might really be "one of us" when I watched his interview with Al Franken.

the sort of lofty tone, fine. But the replacement part was about (Katrina?), that he was on holiday or vacation and refused to come back to work when the storm was intensifying/arriving, while Anderson COOPER was emoting and letting it all hang out. I remember feeling resentful at the time that Anderson had sort of staged a coup. I now like Anderson much more, but especially with him back in the studio and not being an actual reporter at the scene of hot spots.

COOPER, Katie COURIC, and Diane SAWYER weren't field reporters. Katie and Anderson in Egypt during Arab Spring were a mess, both got physically assaulted. Meanwhile, Diane was back in the NYC studio, but similarly out of touch: ABC had a giant map of Egypt or Cairo projected on the FLOOR and Diane was acting out being in locations, walking across "Egypt" in SPIKE heels, hunched over, pointing down to the floor to whatever location. It was absurd.

The other time that SPIKE heels played a role was during the '04 election, when KKKarl ROVE was disputing totals being fed to them by the back room numbers crunchers, and the horrible Brit HUME stooge/protege whassername Megyn KELLY got up from the anchor chair and the camera shot full figure of her striding in SPIKE heels down the all to the back room. Today's climate gives a different context for the camera angle and the SPIKE heels at the Faux Propaganda Network. And what *were* the rumors about her and Brit?!1

I don't remember which station in Seattle but he definitely worked there before 9/11.

back in the day before tribalism. From my early middle school days up to marriage and children. He was the one to turn to for serious Seattle news

Then I just kind of lost track of him. I tend to stay away from cable news.

https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/10/media/aaron-brown-remembers-911-coverage/index.html

Just splitting hairs, but an NDA is a non-disclosure agreement -- you won't reveal any trade secrets, etc. I think you mean an NCC: a non-compete clause. I had to sign one of those once. It sucked. Kept me out of work for about 6 months until I paid a lawyer to make it go away.

Yes, Aaron Brown got me through 9/11 too. And he and Rym Brahimi got me through the invasion of Iraq. I miss her too. A major-network Middle East correspondent who speaks Arabic: Imagine that!

https://www.npr.org/2011/09/11/140365073/how-aaron-brown-became-cnns-voice-of-sept-11?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

When the north tower fell at 10:28 a.m., Brown became quiet.

"Good Lord. There are no words," he said, looking at the smoke billowing just 30 blocks away.

Brown didn't talk publicly about his coverage of the terrorist attacks for many years. He doesn't see his reporting as heroic compared to what the firefighters and other first responders did that day.

"Sometimes I'm a little embarrassed, I suppose, at this notion that anything I did mattered," he says. "I think I just told a story."

Brown confesses he doesn't think his coverage was even that good, but he did win the Edward R. Murrow award for his Sept. 11 coverage atop the CNN roof.

when it was happening live. n/t

But within moments CNN was showing the building and the coverage was live. It had just happened. No one knew what it was. It wasn't until the other plane hit that the ghastly realization that it was an attack on America was evident.