Rob Brown is a Canadian television journalist and anchor for
CBC News Calgary.
Early life
Brown was born in
Vancouver,
British Columbia and raised in
Ladner, British Columbia. Brown had graduated
British Columbia Institute of Technology in 1997, attending its journalism program.
Newscasting career
Brown began his career as a photojournalist at a
CTV affiliate in
Yorkton,
Saskatchewan. After briefly leaving CTV to cover the
Legislative Assembly of Alberta and
Ralph Klein, Brown had eventually returned to British Columbia. Since then, Brown had held a number of positions such as being CTV's bureau chief for Vancouver for
CTV Vancouver. Brown was also the lead reporter for CTV during the
2010 Winter Olympics
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. During his career, Brown had won a number of journalistic awards including the
Jack Webster Award
Jack Webster Awards are a series of yearly industry awards presented by the Jack Webster Foundation for outstanding achievement in journalism in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The awards were established in 1986 by the foundation and ...
for Best News Reporting and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Hard News Feature.
Brown became an international celebrity for his coverage of the
2011 Stanley Cup riot
The 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot was a public disturbance in the downtown core of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on the evening of June 15, 2011. The riot broke out almost immediately after the conclusion of the Boston Bruins' win over ...
, from which he reported live for CTV. Brown became a trending topic on Twitter during the riots, and earned the top spot on SportsIllustrated.com's Media Power List for June 2011.
2011 Stanely Cup Riot Coverage Earns Canadian TV Reporter Top Spot
In August 2013, Brown joined CBC Calgary as anchor alongside his wife Rosa Marchitelli and became the first married couple anchors in Canadian television news history.
References
External links
British Columbia Institute of Technology alumni
Canadian television reporters and correspondents
Living people
Journalists from British Columbia
People from Delta, British Columbia
People from Vancouver
Year of birth missing (living people)
Jack Webster award recipients
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