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American journalist and CNN news anchor Aaron Brown delivers the news from CNN headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, October 9, 2001. Brown died on Sunday at the age of 76. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images)
Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown, the veteran broadcaster who won widespread praise for his coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, died Sunday at age 76, according to CNN.
Brown’s television career began in Seattle, first as an assistant night editor at KING 5 starting in 1976, then anchoring the 11 p.m. newscast on KIRO 7 in 1986. In 1991, he hosted a national nightly news program for ABC.
A decade later, he joined CNN to host “NewsNight.” The program had not yet been launched September 11, 2001when a group of terrorists hijacked and crashed planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
But Brown sprang into action, delivering calm, incisive and candid reporting from the roof of CNN’s Manhattan office. He became a guiding figure for millions of viewers during one of the most significant days in American history, reporting live for 17 hours, according to CNN.
Former CNN anchor and veteran journalist Aaron Brown earned widespread praise for his coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. He died Sunday at age 76, his family told CNN. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images)
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CNN anchor John Vause, who also reported from New York on 9/11, recalled that Brown took off his reporter’s hat when the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed.
“When it was live, he would just stop and look at it. And he would pause. And he shared that moment where everyone was like, ‘Oh my God. There are no words,'” Vause said in a CNN report announcing Brown’s passing.
Brown won the Edward R. Murrow Award for his coverage of the attacks.
Brown’s colleagues praised him as “first and foremost a writer and craftsman” with a “biting sense of humor.” He also highlighted the importance of empathy in reporting, according to former CNN producer Amanda Turnbull.
“His narrative was based on facts, but his delivery was always deeply human,” Turnbull said, according to CNN.
American journalist and CNN news anchor Aaron Brown delivers the news from CNN headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia on October 9, 2001. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images)
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Brown was born and raised in minnesota. He hosted a radio show in Minneapolis before attending the University of Minnesota for about a year in 1966, according to the university, and then joined the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve.
Brown’s departure from ABC was to run CNN’s primetime news program “NewsNight,” but in 2005 the network changed its programming and Anderson Cooper replaced Brown’s show.
Brown later taught journalism at the Cronkite School at Arizona State University.
