Ben Brown (journalist)
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Benjamin Russell Brown 26 May 1960 Ashford, Kent, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | TV presenter, newsreader and journalist |
| Years active | 1986–present |
Benjamin Russell "Ben" Brown (born 26 May 1960) is a British journalist and news presenter for the BBC's rolling news channel BBC News. He has also presented the BBC News at Six and the BBC News at Ten and is currently an occasional presenter on the BBC Weekend News on BBC One. He also appears on the BBC News at Five, World News Today and BBC World News.
Born in Ashford, Kent, the son of the ITN newscaster Antony Brown, Ben Brown was educated at the Sutton Valence School, an Independent school. During high school, Brown was on the debate team, and took second place in the national debating championships. He won an Open Scholarship to Keble College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, before graduating from the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies with a diploma with distinction. He joined Radio Clyde in Glasgow as a reporter, and later became a reporter for Radio City in Liverpool.
In 1986, Ben joined Independent Radio News, covering major stories from superpower summits to the Hungerford massacre. He joined BBC TV News two years later and was a Foreign Affairs Correspondent until 1991, reporting the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Persian Gulf war, from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
He was appointed Moscow Correspondent in 1991, where he witnessed the final collapse of Communism and the fall of Mikhail Gorbachev. He was at the Russian Parliament when troops loyal to President Boris Yeltsin stormed it in 1993, and the following year he was in Chechnya for the start of the civil war. His coverage of that conflict won him several international prizes, including the Bayeux War Correspondent of the Year Award and the Golden Nymph Award from the Monte Carlo Television Festival.
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