American journalist and CNN information anchor Aaron Brown delivers the information from CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, October 9, 2001. Brown died on Sunday on the age of 76. (Photograph by Erik S. Lesser/Getty Photographs)
Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown, the veteran broadcaster who earned widespread popularity of his protection of the Sept. 11 terrorist assaults, died Sunday at 76, per CNN.
Brown’s tv profession started in Seattle, first as an assistant evening project editor at KING 5 beginning in 1976, then anchoring the 11 p.m. newscast at KIRO 7 in 1986. In 1991, he hosted a nationwide in a single day information present for ABC.
A decade later, he joined CNN to host “NewsNight.” The present hadn’t but launched on Sept. 11, 2001, when a gaggle of terrorists hijacked and crashed airplanes on the World Commerce Heart, the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Penn.
However Brown sprang into motion, delivering calm, incisive and heartfelt reporting from the roof of CNN’s Manhattan workplace. He turned a guiding determine for tens of millions of viewers throughout one of the crucial important days in American historical past, reporting dwell for 17 hours, in keeping with CNN.
Former CNN anchor and longtime newsman Aaron Brown earned widespread accolades for his protection of the Sept. 11 terrorist assaults towards the US. He died Sunday at age 76, his household informed CNN. (Photograph by Erik S. Lesser/Getty Photographs)
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CNN anchor John Vause, who additionally reported from New York on 9/11, remembered Brown taking off his reporter hat when the South Tower of the World Commerce Heart collapsed.
“When he was live on air, he just stopped and looked at it. And paused. And he shared this moment that everybody was thinking, ‘Good Lord. There are no words,’” Vause stated in a CNN report saying Brown’s passing.
Brown gained the Edward R. Murrow Award for his protection of the assaults.
Brown’s colleagues praised him as “first and foremost a writer and craftsman” with a “biting sense of humor.” He additionally burdened the significance of empathy in reporting, in keeping with former CNN producer Amanda Turnbull.
“His storytelling was driven by the facts, but his delivery was always deeply human,” Turnbull stated, per CNN.
American journalist and CNN information anchor Aaron Brown delivers the information from CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, Oct. 9, 2001. (Photograph by Erik S. Lesser/Getty Photographs)
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Brown was born and raised in Minnesota. He hosted a radio speak present in Minneapolis earlier than attending the College of Minnesota for a few yr in 1966, in keeping with the college, then joined the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve.
Brown’s departure from ABC was to guide CNN’s primetime information present “NewsNight,” however in 2005 the community modified its lineup and Anderson Cooper changed Brown’s present.
Brown later taught journalism at Arizona State College’s Cronkite College.
