East Tennessee State University is re-establishing its popular Presidential Distinguished Lecture Series with an April 27, appearance by Campbell Brown of NBC News, who will speak at 7 p.m. in the D.P. Culp Center Auditorium.
Beginning in 1986 as a main feature of ETSU’s 75th anniversary celebration, the lecture series was discontinued in 1999 because of campuswide budget cuts.
Campbell Brown is a primary correspondent for The NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and the weekday Today show. She co-anchors the weekend edition of Today, the nation’s top-rated weekend news program.
Among the major news events she has covered for NBC are the last two presidential elections, the elections in Iraq, the abuses at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, the death of Pope John Paul II, and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
Before joining Weekend Today, Brown served as NBC News White House correspondent. Hired by the network in 1998, she was first assigned to cover President Clinton’s impeachment trial. She was later posted at the Pentagon, reporting on the war in Kosovo.
From 1996 to 1998, Brown covered national breaking news stories such as the crash of Swiss Air Flight No. 111 and the Pope’s historic visit to Cuba, for MSNBC and CNBC.
She began her career in local news as the political reporter for KSNT-TV, the NBC affiliate in Topeka, Kan.
Brown then moved to WWBT-TV, which is the NBC affiliate in Richmond, Va. She also reported for WBAL-TV in Baltimore and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., before joining the network.
Brown grew up in Louisiana and graduated from Regis College in Denver with a B.A. in political science. After graduation, she spent a year teaching English in the former Czechoslovakia. She currently resides in New York.

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