Jeffrey Brown

Jeffrey Brown

Veteran PBS NewsHour senior correspondent and author of prose and poetry

For more than three decades, Jeffrey Brown has sat across from newsmakers, leaders, and the world’s most celebrated writers and artists, drawing out ideas that shape how we understand our world. The PBS NewsHour senior correspondent returns to the SVAF stage in 2027 as a lead moderator.

Since joining PBS in 1988, Brown has done it all: co-anchor, studio moderator, and field reporter. He has covered the biggest national and international stories, reported from across the country and around the globe, and interviewed many of the world’s leading newsmakers. Few journalists have spent so long in conversation with so many who shape the world.

Brown is especially renowned for his conversations with the world’s most significant creative minds. As the NewsHour’s arts correspondent since 2002, and later its chief correspondent for arts, culture, and society, he has profiled many of the world’s leading writers, musicians, actors, and artists. He hosts “Now Read This,” a monthly book club with The New York Times that brings readers into discussion with noted authors, and he created the NewsHour’s “Art Beat” blog.

His work has earned a Peabody Award, a News & Documentary Emmy Award, and several CINE Golden Eagle Awards.

A poet as well as a journalist, Brown is the author of The News, a book of prose and poetry that explores the intersections between politics and poetry. His literary sensibility and decades of experience make him a skilled moderator, one who draws out ideas with insight, curiosity, and warmth.

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