this war is evaporating into thin air." Announcing his resignation Brown said that he could not subscribe to what he characterized as CBS' policy of "non-opinionated" news. Career after CBS After leaving CBS Brown covered the rest of the war at home, in the United States, for the Mutual Network. When World War II ended, Brown continued to work in broadcast journalism as a correspondent for Mutual, NBC and ABC. He retired from broadcasting in 1967 and went to work as a professor of communication arts at Cal Poly Pomona where he worked until he died in 1987. Honors Overseas Press Club: Best Reporter Award 1941: Peabody Award for Outstanding Reporting of the News 1965: Alfred I. duPont Award Further reading Bernstein, Mark, World War II on the air: Edward R Murrow and the broadcasts that riveted a nation (Illinois: Sourcebooks, Inc, 2003) References 1907 births 1987 deaths American radio reporters and correspondents American male journalists CBS News people Peabody Award winners American war correspondents of World War II People from New Brighton, Pennsylvania