Keith Brown
VP News and Documentaries, Spike TV
30 Minutes with Keith Brown, Spike TV

An award-winning author and broadcast journalist, Keith Michael Brown is currently Vice President of News and Documentaries for Spike TV, the first network for men. Prior to Spike-TV, Brown's was an on-air correspondent for the critically acclaimed weekly PBS news and public affairs magazine, Now with Bill Moyers, where he reported and produced hard-hitting stories ranging from radical Islam to a near nuclear reactor meltdown in Ohio to the worst case of chemical pollution in the nation. He also produced a series of profiles, including one on civil rights legend Bob Moses, now founder of The Algebra Project.

Brown received a George Foster Peabody Award, National Emmy Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism for In the Killing Fields of America a CBS News special on violence in America. Dan Rather, Ed Bradley and Mike Wallace hosted the three-hour report. While at CBS, he also produced for the primetime newsmagazines Street Stories with Ed Bradley, 48 Hours, and America Tonight.

Brown is also the best-selling author of Sacred Bond: Black Men and Their Mothers, a nonfiction book exploring the complex relationship between sons and mothers.

A native of Freehold, New Jersey, Brown graduated from Syracuse University, Maxwell School for Public Affairs, with a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations. He received his Master's Degree from Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism in 1991. Brown speaks fluent French and lives with his wife, television producer Maria Perez-Brown in Manhattan.