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Member Profile: Christina Brown
MSNBC Anchor & Correspondent
Christina Brown is an Emmy award-winning anchor and journalist. She is a host of the Early Today morning show for NBC News as well as First Look on MSNBC cable network and contributes to NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. She is a military veteran and member of the National Association of Black Journalists.
In many ways, one could say Brown turned in her M-16, for a microphone and in doing so, accepted a different kind of responsibility. As a journalist, she is a witness to the events that shape our lives.
Brown's journey into television news began as a military broadcaster. She began her radio and television career after enlisting in the U.S. Air Force.
Brown joined the military and spent two years as a military broadcaster, reporting for American Forces Network, from Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. She later returned to the United States and moved to Kelly Air Force Base, in San Antonio, Texas, to join Air Force Television News as an anchor and reporter.
Following her time at Air Force Television News, Brown moved to El Paso, Texas, to join KTSM, the NBC affiliate, where she spent two years as an anchor and reporter. While at KTSM, she reported on military and justice affairs, as well anchoring daily newscasts. After two years in El Paso, Brown moved to Las Vegas, where she joined ABC affiliate, KTNV-TV.
She spent five years in Las Vegas, before joining NBC News & MSNBC as an anchor and correspondent.
Brown has received numerous awards including an Emmy, a Texas Associated Press first place award for spot news coverage and the Air Force Commendation Medal.
Christina Brown is also a member of the New York Association of Black Journalists, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and New York Women in Film and Television. She was the President and later Vice President of Broadcast, for the Las Vegas Association of Black Journalists.
Brown is a graduate of University of Phoenix with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
Apr 12, 2010 
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