Background
Brown, JEFFREY was born on November 7, 1956 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States.
Brown, JEFFREY was born on November 7, 1956 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States.
He holds a bachelor"s degree in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley (1981), attended Boalt Hall School of Law at University of California Berkeley from 1983 to 1985, and holds a master"s degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism (1986).
Brown was a producer and writer for the Columbia University Seminars on Media & Society, an independent television production company headed by Fred West. Friendly. There he produced numerous programs for public television on a wide range of subjects, including foreign policy, ethics and the Constitution. He joined the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour in 1988 and served as an economics reporter, national affairs producer and then senior producer, overseeing the program"s coverage of a broad range of news topics.
He became a correspondent for the NewsHour in the late 1990s, covering the news and the arts, and later served as a co-anchor of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
His work as as correspondent has taken him throughout the United States and to many parts of the globe and has included interviews with many of the world"s leading writers, musicians and other artists. Today he is senior correspondent and chief arts correspondent for the Public Broadcasting Service NewsHour, based in Washington, and creator and host of "Art Beat", the NewsHour"s online arts and culture blog.
His work has garnered an Emmy, five Cine Golden Eagle Awards, and other honors. His book of poetry, "The News", was published by Copper Canyon Press in May 2015.
In his introduction to the book, Robert Pinsky writes that "Jeffrey Brown has brought a remarkable, fresh kind of attention to questions of identity and presence, delusion and awareness..The News is more than a venture into art by someone prominent in another field
In these poems, an unconventional subject for poetry is dealt with from within, by a real poet.".
Bergen County, Middlesex County, New Jersey State, New York State and American Bar Associations. American Academy of Hospital Attorneys. National Health Lawyers Association.
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