Campbell Brown (born 1967 in Ferriday, Louisiana) is co-anchor of Weekend Today. She became co-anchor in 2003. She was born to Jim Brown and Dale Campbell Fairbanks. Before Weekend Today she was a White House correspondent for NBC News from 2001-2003.
Brown graduated from Regis University in Denver, Colorado with a B.A. in Political Science. After graduation, she spent a year teaching English in the former Czechoslovakia.
She began her career in local news reporting for KSNT-TV, the NBC affiliate in Topeka, Kansas, and then for WWBT-TV, the NBC affiliate in Richmond, Virginia and also reported for WBAL-TV in Baltimore, Maryland and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. Brown joined NBC National News in 1996 and her first story was Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. She was later assigned to The Pentagon and covered the war in Kosovo.
During the Presidential campaign she covered George W. Bush as well as the Republican National Convention and Republican primary.
She is engaged to Dan Senor, who is the former spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq. She announced on the Today show (November 5, 2005) that she is engaged to marry Senor.
She is a frequent fill-in for Brian Williams on the NBC Nightly News.
