TV newswoman Brooke Baldwin

When Brooke Baldwin left CNN in April 2021 to pursue other interests after thirteen years at that news channel, it had been like she had been at CNN forever, so much had we gotten used to seeing her on the air.

 

But she actually began the twenty-first century fresh out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working at WVIR-TV in Charlottesville, Virginia.  She furthered her career in West Virginia, where she became he morning news anchor at WOWK-TV in that state, eventually joining WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C. as the main reporter for the 10:00 PM report.   

In her thirteen years at CNN, Ms. Baldwin produced the award-winning documentary "To Catch a Serial Killer" and reported on momentous events such as the last space shuttle flight and the Orlando nightclub shooting.  In April 2020, however, she became a story herself - along with fellow CNN personality Chris Cuomo, she caught the SARS CoV-2 virus that was tearing through America like wildfire.  (Both she and Cuomo recovered fairly quickly.)

Ms. Baldwin published her first book, "Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power," a book about how women can gain power by banding together, in April 2021, the same month she announced her departure from CNN. It would appear that writing nonfiction books is the next step forward in her career.