Feature Story--extended blog edited

Title: Anchor, Mentor, Volunteer: The Many Faces of News 8's Paul Brown
Blurb: Join Melinda Valero as she gets to know News 8 Austin's Paul Brown in this web-exclusive behind the scenes footage.

His great knowledge of journalism is just one great quality anchor Paul Brown brings to News 8 Austin. I went behind the scenes in the newsroom to talk to others and Paul himself to find out how else he helps out his fellow coworkers and his community.

Though he is titled "News Guru" by his coworkers at News 8, Brown still feels he has more to learn about the field. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at The University of Texas at Austin. Another goal of his is to conduct research about the news industry, which could serve as a blueprint for younger journalists.

Along with sharing his wisdom of journalism with fellow coworkers and aspiring journalists, Brown is involved with several nonprofits and other community involvement.

He has served as a chairman of the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters, and has judged several journalism competitions.

Along with that, he is a chairman of Texas Hearing and Service Dogs. This organization trains service dogs that help people with disabilities or may be hard of hearing or wheelchair bound. The dogs are trained to help people to do simple things like help people who drop a pen and are not able pick it up.

His interest in animals is also seen in his weekly segment on News 8, Pet of the Week.

Paul is also involved in the Neighborhood Longhorns Program, which creates incentives for those at lower economic elementary and middle schools to learn. Students from UT who go into lower economic elementary and middle schools in Austin to create incentives for learning. With one-on-one mentoring from the students, there is an incentive program that offers tickets to UT sports games for good grades.

To find out how to help out with any of these causes that Paul is involved with, click on the links above.



PROFILE:
Name: Paul Brown
Age: 47
Family members: Wife Dodie, sons Wade, 21, Emmett, 17, and Joshua, 8.
Current title: Anchor for News 8 Austin
Role model in Journalism: Walter Cronkite
Education: B.S. in Radio-Television-Film, Master's in Journalism, and working towards Ph.D. in Journalism at The University of Texas at Austin
First job in journalism: reporter at the Brownwood Bulletin
Twitter: PBrownNews8
Read Brown's profile on News 8 Austin's website to find out more about him.

Check out the videos below with a one-on-one interview with Paul Brown himself and interviews with his fellow coworkers to get their opinion of Brown.