Fake News

Assistant Professor of Professional Practice817-257-4241j.brown5@tcu.edu

Jean Marie Brown teaches reporting and coaches student journalists at Texas Christian University’s School of Journalism. A former newspaper executive, Brown spent most of her career working for Knight Ridder, and later McClatchy newspapers.M.S., Texas Christian University
B.S., Northwestern University

Her management career included time as a deputy features editor, city editor, assistant managing editor and managing editor. At one time, she directed local news coverage for the Arlington edition of the Star-Telegram, as well as the Northeast edition. Her strengths as an editor were line editing, story idea generation and staff development. She held management positions at the Star-Telegram and The Charlotte Observer.

As a reporter, she excelled at covering government and public policy. She began her career in the Chicago Bureau of The Wall Street Journal where she covered agriculture, financial futures, and U.S. farm policy.

She also worked at her hometown newspaper, The Post-Tribune, in Gary, Ind. While there, she co-authored an award-winning series that examined the effects of racial segregation on Northwest Indiana, which at the time was considered one of the 10 most segregated regions of the country.

She covered city government for The Charlotte Observer, and also followed the South Carolina delegation at the 1992 Republican National Convention.

Brown earned her bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Her master’s degree is from Texas Christian University. Her thesis focused on the Fault Lines of coverage as outlined by the late Robert C. Maynard. She taught diversity in newsrooms across the country for nearly a decade. She has also taught leadership at the Poynter Institute.