Tony Brown

TV journalist, bestselling author, commentator, radio host and Silver Circle Award winner Tony Brown has been named Dean of the Hampton University Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications, HU President William R. Harvey announced today. Brown will assume his duties as dean on August 30.

“What we have now is strong executive leadership in the Scripps Howard School of Journalism,” said HU President William R. Harvey. “Mr. Brown is known as a team player who throughout his life has worked to solve problems and create successes for those with whom he associates.”

Brown is the commentator of the PBS series, Tony Brown’s Journal, the longest-running of all PBS series. He was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ prestigious Silver Circle. With this honor, he joins such television icons as Walter Cronkite who “have made enduring contributions to the vitality of the television industry and set the highest standards of achievement for all to emulate.”

He is also the former Chief Executive Officer of Urban America Television Network (UATV). Recently, Brown also became the first recipient of the National Director’s Legacy Award for Journalism from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency.

An accomplished educator, Brown was the first and founding dean, as well as professor, of the School of Communications at Howard University, where he established a highly distinguished academic and professional record. He is also a former faculty member at Central Washington University and Federal City College. Brown earned the bachelor’s degree in sociology and his master’s degree in psychiatric social work at Wayne State University in Detroit. He has received numerous honorary doctorate degrees for his achievements in civil rights, education, economics and journalism.

Brown is the bestselling author of three books and many publications including his latest, What Mama Told Me, which describes seven core values given to him by his “Mama” that have sustained him through life. He is also the author of Black Lies, White Lies: The Truth According to Tony Brown, which sold 100,000 copies.

But it is for his work as a journalist that he is best known. Brown’s weekly television series was selected in the New York Daily News as one of the top 10 shows of all time that presents positive Black images. Tony Brown’s Journal was the only current program ranked in the top 10.

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