Brooke Baldwin | |
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 Baldwin on set inWashington, D.C., 2016 | |
| Born | Lauren Brooke Baldwin[1] (1979-07-12)July 12, 1979 (age 46) Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Education | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA) |
| Occupation | News anchor |
| Employer | CNN (2008–2021) |
| Television | CNN Newsroom |
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Lauren Brooke Baldwin (born July 12, 1979) is anAmericanjournalist,television host, andauthor who was atCNN from 2008 until 2021. Baldwin hostedCNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, which aired from 3 to 4p.m.ET on weekdays.
Brooke Baldwin was born inAtlanta, Georgia, where she attendedThe Westminster Schools, a private college-preparatory school, and later, theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She graduated 2001, earning a bachelor's degree with a double major inSpanish andjournalism. Her undergraduate studies also included theUniversidad Iberoamericana inMexico City.[2][3]
Baldwin began her career in 2001 atWVIR-TV inCharlottesville, Virginia, and later became the morning anchor atWOWK-TV in theHuntington andCharleston, West Virginia, area. She later joinedWTTG inWashington, D.C., as lead reporter for the 10 p.m. newscast.[2]
Baldwin joined CNN in 2008 and was based out of CNN's Atlanta world headquarters until 2014.[2] She anchoredCNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin on weekdays and has been based in New York City since 2014.
On July 8, 2011, Baldwin co-anchored CNN's special coverage of the final launch ofSpace ShuttleAtlantis (STS-135) fromKennedy Space Center.[4]
Baldwin's documentaryTo Catch a Serial Killer won a Silver World Medal for Best Investigative Report at the New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards in 2012.[5] She was nominated for anEmmy for her coverage of theNew York City chokehold death protests in wake ofEric Garner's death 2014.
She covered President Obama's second inauguration in January 2013 from Washington, D.C.
In 2015 Baldwin hosted a town hall in Washington, D.C., on gun violence, for which she was aPeabody Award finalist.
Baldwin was criticized during the2015 Baltimore protests when she incorrectly attributed comments she heard that veterans were responsible for the unrest – saying soldiers who become police officers "are coming back from war, they don't know the communities, and they're ready to do battle." She later apologized viaTwitter and on-air the next day.[6] InThe Washington Post, Erik Wemple wrote, "CNN's Brooke Baldwin shows rest of media how to apologize".[7]
In June 2016, Baldwin reported live fromOrlando, Florida, covering the victims and survivors of theOrlando nightclub shooting.
On January 20, 2017, she coveredPresident Trump's inauguration.
On February 16, 2021, Baldwin announced that she would leave CNN in mid-April.[8] She hosted her final show on April 16.[9]
From 2010 to 2020 Baldwin hosted a segment of CNN'sNew Year's Eve Live withAnderson Cooper, and previously alongsideKathy Griffin, broadcasting live fromNew Orleans withDon Lemon. Previously, Baldwin hosted fromNashville, Tennessee in 2010 and 2011.
| Published | Title |
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| March 18, 2015 | Conquering Mount Kilimanjaro: 10 essential lessons[10] |
| October 8, 2015 | Finding the meaning of home in Africa[11] |
| December 3, 2015 | Brooke Baldwin: There's been a shooting ... again[12] |
| April 18, 2016 | Brooke Baldwin: I'm reporting on a world at war. He's fighting in one[13] |
| April 20, 2016 | 4 flights, an aircraft carrier, and a helicopter[14] |
| September 18, 2017 | Brooke Baldwin: Speaking like this to women in 2017? No way[15] |
| January 19, 2018 | American Woman with Brooke Baldwin[16] |
In 2017, CNN commissioned Baldwin's seriesAmerican Woman featuringSheryl Crow,Betty White,Ava DuVernay,Diane von Fürstenberg,Issa Rae,Ashley Graham,Tracy Reese, andPat Benatar.[17][18]
Baldwin published her first book,Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power in April 2021. In the book, she interviews multiple women includingAva DuVernay,Stacey Abrams, andGloria Steinem about the power women have when they join.[19]
On December 8, 2023, Baldwin was announced as the host of a new American reality TV series,The Trust: A Game of Greed exploring the psychology of people when presented with potential financial reward. The first four episodes were released onNetflix on January 10, 2024, with new episodes then released weekly.[20]
In April 2015,Variety featured her in "Brooke Baldwin Gives Surprising Boost to CNN".[21] In December 2015,The New York Times interviewed Baldwin after writing an op-ed on CNN.com[22] about covering mass shootings in America.[23]Marie Claire magazine interviewed her on the subject of covering mass shootings.[24]
In 2016,Elle magazine featured Baldwin as one of five female correspondents during the election year of 2016.[25] New York'sDowntown magazine featured Baldwin in October 2016.[26]
OnSaturday Night Live, Baldwin was parodied in a sketch featuringCecily Strong andAlec Baldwin in October 2016, the week after the release of theDonald TrumpAccess Hollywood tape.[27]
In 2017, Baldwin was featured in aVariety magazine article "Women Surge to Top of TV News in Face of Sexism".[28]
On September 15, 2017,Clay Travis appeared as a guest onCNN with Baldwin to discuss free speech, specifically whetherESPN personalityJemele Hill should be fired for callingDonald Trump a "white supremacist" and stating that police officers were "modern day slave catchers" on her personal Twitter page. Travis stated that it would be bad policy on ESPN's part to fire Hill for her private comments, just as it was bad policy when ESPN firedCurt Schilling for comments he made regarding transgender bathrooms on his personal Facebook page. Travis received criticism for using a phrase he commonly used on his radio show when he said "...I'm a First Amendment absolutist - the only two things I 100 percent believe in are the First Amendment and boobs..."[29] Baldwin cut the interview short and later responded, "when I first heard 'boobs' from a grown man on national television (in 2017!!!) my initial thought bubble was: 'Did I hear that correctly??...'"[30]
Baldwin hosted the AK100 Club event for the travel agency Abercrombie and Kent, and gave a speech, based upon her March 2015 climb upMount Kilimanjaro.
Also in 2016, Baldwin presented an award at L'Oréal Paris 11th Annual Women of Worth Celebration. Other presenters includedBlake Lively,Andie MacDowell,Diane Keaton,Aimee Mullins, L'Oréal USA president Karen Fondu,Tamron Hall,Arianna Huffington,Liya Kebede,Karlie Kloss andEva Longoria at The Pierre on November 16 in New York City.[31]
In 2017, Baldwin spoke at the 7th annual Neighbor Celebration in Washington, D.C. forBlue Star Families where former First LadyRosalynn Carter was honored on March 30, 2017.[32]
Baldwin hostedMother Nature Network's White House Correspondents' Jam at Hamilton Live, Washington, D.C., in April 2017 – featuring headlining band,The Boxmasters, with actorBilly Bob Thornton andRolling Stones' keyboardistChuck Leavell.[33]
Baldwin gave the commencement address atThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on May 14, 2017.[34][35][36]
In July 2017, Baldwin revealed that she was engaged to English producer James Fletcher.[37] They were married in May 2018.[38][39]
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