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Carolyn Brown

Assistant Professor
School of Communication

  • Carolyn Brown is a full-time professor of Journalism. She joins the School of Communication after working for MSNBC News and Fox News Channel producing daily news shows and such shows as “Sunday Housecall” (Fox) and “Economywatch” (MSNBC).

    Carolyn also worked as a producer and senior producer in local news in San Francisco, Washington DC and Phoenix. Brown has written commentary as a contributor for MSNBC.COM. She began her news career at CBS News, “The Early Show”, and has also worked on “The Late Show with David Letterman”, “The Cosby Show” and “The Chris Rock Show.”

    Prof. Brown's area of expertise is immigration/the border, and militia groups. She recently produced a documentary, On the Line, which followed the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, on the border in Arizona. She has appeared as an expert on several national broadcast news shows, including CBS Evening News, CNN in Espanol, and the Diane Rehm Show, discussing her documentary and immigration and militia groups.

    www.carolynebrown.com

  • Degrees

    BA Colgate University; MA Northern Arizona University
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Teaching

  • Fall 2011

    • COMM-596 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Video Storytelling
    • Description
    • COMM-596 Selected Topics:Non-Recurring: Video Storytelling
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Area of Expertise: The Minutemen; militia groups; anti-immigrant groups; immigration and the border; bilingual and Spanish-language news and television; the Latino experience in America; cable television news; broadcast news

Additional Information: Before Carolyn Brown came to American University's School of Communication, she had a succesful career working in television news. Brown worked as a producer at the national level at MSNBC News and Fox News Channel, producing daily news shows and such shows as Sunday Housecall (Fox News Channel) and Economywatch (MSNBC). She also worked as a producer in local news in San Francisco at KNTV and KRON-TV; at News Channel 8 in Washington, D.C.; and as a senior producer on Arizona Entertainment Weekly in Phoenix. Brown began her news career at CBS News, The Early Show,and has worked on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Cosby Show, The Chris Rock Show, and Geraldo. She has published content on MSNBC.com as a contributor and commentator.

Brown's area of expertise is immigration/the border, and militia groups. She recently produced a documentary, On the Line, which followed the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, on the border in Arizona. She has appeared as an expert on several national broadcast news shows, including CBS Evening News, CNN en Español, and the Diane Rehm Show, discussing her documentary and immigration and militia groups.
 

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