Campbell Brown

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Brown on The Today Show

Almadale Campbell Brown (born June 14, 1968, Ferriday, Louisiana), is an American television news reporter and co-anchor since 2003 of Weekend Today.

[edit] Background

She was born to former Louisiana Democratic state senator, secretary of state, and insurance commissioner James H. "Jim" Brown, Jr., and Brown's first wife, Dale Campbell Fairbanks. Before Weekend Today, she was the White House correspondent for NBC News from 2001-2003.

Brown graduated from Regis University in Denver, Colorado with a B.A. in Political Science. After graduation, she spent a year teaching English in the former Czechoslovakia.

[edit] Career

She began her career in local news reporting for KSNT-TV, the NBC affiliate in Topeka, Kansas, and then for WWBT-TV, the NBC affiliate in Richmond, Virginia, and also reported for WBAL-TV in Baltimore, Maryland, and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. Brown joined NBC National News in 1996; her first story was Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. She was later assigned to The Pentagon and covered the war in Kosovo.

During the Presidential campaign, she covered George W. Bush as well as the Republican National Convention and Republican primary.

On April 2, 2006, she married Dan Senor, a consultant who regularly appears on Fox News.

She is a frequent fill-in for Brian Williams on the NBC Nightly News. In March 2006, she was named as one of five women who might replace Katie Couric when she would leave The Today Show, but the vacancy was filled by Meredith Vieira. It is highly speculated that Brown will depart NBC News altogether when her contract expires in 2007 and possibly move to CNN or Fox News where her husband works as a consultant in wake of not receiving the 'Today' hosting duties. She is also listed as a possible replacement for Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America if Sawyer were to leave the program[1].

There is also speculation that she might move to CBS and become co-anchor of The Early Show, alongside CNN's Anderson Cooper. Still more speculation has Brown returning to local television in Washington, DC at WJLA; working in the DC market is a common career path for former network anchors and correspondents.