PERSON: Jeffrey Brown

Senior Correspondent

Jeffrey Brown (born 1956) is an American journalist, who is a senior correspondent for the PBS NewsHour. His reports focus on arts and literature, and he has interviewed numerous writers, poets, and musicians. Brown has worked most of his professional career at PBS and has written a poetry collection called The News.

Brown was born in 1956 to Morton Brown and Mirriam “Micki” Brown (née Decter). He has four siblings, and grew up in Belmont, Massachusetts. He graduated from high school in 1974.

Brown studied Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a bachelor’s degree. He planned to pursue a PhD subsequently in order to become an academic, but finally decided he wanted to be a law journalist. Brown did a joint program at Berkeley Law and the Columbia Journalism School. He first studied law for two years and then studied journalism for one year. Brown received a master’s degree in journalism, but did not finish law school. In 2010, Brown received an honorary degree (D.H.L.) from Wesley College after giving a commencement speech there.

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