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Born | Pamela Ashley Brown November 29, 1983 Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. |
Education | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and George Washington University Law School |
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Known for | Anchor and chief investigative correspondent, CNN |
Spouse | Adam Wright (m. 2017) |
Children | 3 |
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Pamela Ashley Brown (born November 29, 1983) is a television reporter and newscaster. She is currently CNN's chief investigative correspondent and anchor. Since March 2025, she has served, together with Wolf Blitzer, as the co-host of The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown . [1] [2] [3] She also previously had served as host of CNN Newsroom broadcasts. She formerly worked for ABC Washington, D.C., affiliate WJLA-TV, and she is also fill-in and substitute anchor for CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer during its early evening run and Erin Burnett OutFront . [4] [5] [6] Brown occasionally provided the lead-in to "Politico's Video Playback"—a daily recap of the previous night's U.S. late-night talk shows.
Brown was born in Lexington, Kentucky, the daughter of businessman and former Governor of Kentucky John Y. Brown Jr. (1933-2022) and former Miss America and businesswoman Phyllis George (1949–2020). At the time, George took maternity leave from her duties on CBS' NFL pregame show, The NFL Today . Brown is the granddaughter of politician John Y. Brown Sr. and the half-sister of former Kentucky Secretary of State John Y. Brown, III. Her parents divorced in 1996 after 17 years of marriage, when Brown was 13. [7]
Brown graduated from Henry Clay High School in Lexington and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [7] with a degree in broadcast journalism. While at the University of North Carolina, Brown was a reporter on the university's Carolina Week. After college, she worked for ABC-affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington. [7] [4] Brown is currently pursuing a Master of Studies in Law (MSL) degree from George Washington University Law School. [8]
In January 2021, CNN announced that Brown would move to senior Washington correspondent and would host three hours of CNN Newsroom on weekends. [9]
On August 14, 2023, CNN announced in a major programming overhaul that Brown would helm a new weekday show from 3–4 p.m. ET entitled The Bulletin with Pamela Brown. [10] In February 2024, it was announced that The Bulletin would instead air at 11 a.m. ET, and premiere once Brown returns from maternity leave. [11] In September 2024, Brown began hosting the hour—which had been filled by Wolf Blitzer in the interim—under the CNN Newsroom branding instead. [12] On January 23, 2025, it was announced that Blitzer's evening show The Situation Room would move to a 10 a.m.–12 p.m. timeslot, with Brown as a co-anchor. [13]
Brown would officially begin co-hosting The Situation Room with Blitzer in March 2025. [14] [1]
Brown has an older brother, Lincoln (born 1980) and three half-siblings from her father's prior marriage. [7] Brown was named after her aunt Pamela Brown, [4] who died in 1970 at the age of 28 together with her husband Rod Anderson and balloonist Malcolm Brighton, in an ill-fated attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a Rozière balloon, Free Life . [15]
Brown married Adam Wright on June 5, 2017. [16] In June 2018, their son was born, [17] followed by a daughter in February 2020, and a son in February 2024. [18]