Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown is joining PBS' "Wide Angle" series and ending his on-air absence of more than two years.
The Hopkins, Minnesota, native says he wanted to do broadcast journalism again, but something different.
"Wide Angle" is a weekly public affairs series with a global focus. Brown says it offers the chance "to work in an environment where people just think about making good TV and good journalism."
The 59-year-old Brown left CNN in November 2005 during a shake-up that gave his time slot to rising star Anderson Cooper.
Mitt Romney aggressively challenged John McCain’s conservative credentials Wednesday in an effort to counter departing GOP rival Rudy Giuliani’s endorsement of McCain.
The Writers Guild of America strike is in its eighth week, and I’m starting to get anxious. I’m already craving new episodes of “The Office,” and if “House” doesn’t return soon, I’m afraid I’ll have nothing to distract myself from behaving like the acerbic title character.
Republican presidential candidates — notably not presently counting former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — have wisely reversed course and decided to participate in the Nov. 28 debate hosted by CNN, the Florida GOP and YouTube, which made its political mark with an inquiring snowman.
To Pat Goles, it was divine intervention. His son Michael had faced the Baltimore Catholic community’s damnation after making sexual abuse charges in 1993 against popular Calvert Hall chaplain “Father Jeff” Toohey. Then, in 2004, his son, who remained troubled and unvindicated, got a phone call from a man only several blocks away in Atlanta. He had just come forth with similar allegations.