He provided legal assistance as part of the Americorps program in the Shenandoah Valley.
[2] He has frequently reported for NPR and served as the executive producer of CalNet, California's first statewide public radio news network.
Brown anchored NPR's nationally syndicated Marketplace radio program from American Public Media from September 2003 to August 2005, replacing David Brancaccio.
[3] In 2005, Brown launched and served as the host and executive producer of the program "Texas Music Matters" on KUT,[5][6] the NPR affiliate in Austin, Texas until 2013, when KUT tapped him to develop a signature news program for the station which went "all news" after the purchase of sister station KUTX in late 2012.
[6][7] Brown wrote The Art of Business Wars: Battle-Tested Lessons for Leaders and Entrepreneurs from History's Greatest Rivalries,[8][9] and "A Gutenberg Moment," the opening chapter of the communications textbook, "The Future of News: An Agenda of Perspectives.