Christian Brown
Christian Brown is faculty adviser of Talon Marks newspaper and the head of the journalism program at Cerritos College. He currently serves as department chair for the Journalism & Media Studies Department.
In addition to teaching, Brown is an award-winning multimedia journalist, specializing in print and broadcast reporting on topics of politics and public affairs.
In 2009, Brown joined The Downey Patriot newspaper as an intern and was hired as a staff writer the following year. Since then, he's worked at NPR-station KPCC (Southern California Public Radio) as a fill-in reporter and traveled to Indonesia as a foreign correspondent for GlobalPost and PRI's The World. In 2016, he was named managing editor of The Norwalk Patriot newspaper, where he oversaw all news content in both print and digital platforms.
Since 2014, Brown has won three L.A. Press Club awards. One prize in 2015 for a lifestyle feature on L.A.'s mass grave in Boyle Heights and a pair of awards in 2014 for a news feature on regional homelessness and an investigative report on the quid pro quo acquisition of a bankrupt community hospital.
Brown graduated cum laude from Cal State Fullerton in 2010, earning his B.A. in Communications. In 2015, he graduated at the top of his cohort from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism with an M.S. in Journalism.
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