More About Herb Brubaker

Herb Brubaker is President and Chairman of Television News Center, an organization that trains TV journalists. TNC instructs technicians and directors as well as reporters, producers, and anchors.

Herb Brubaker is a 20 year veteran of NBC News in Washington, where he was a "Nightly News" producer, Jessica Savitch's line producer, assignment manager, and writer.

Before joining NBC, Brubaker was a reporter and Washington bureau chief for Radio Press International, a moderator and co-producer for a weekly news panel program on Channel 5 in Washington, and a reporter for United Press International's audio news service.

Brubaker has covered the White House, Congress, Republican and Democratic national conventions, Presidential campaigns, the war in Vietnam, and civil rights unrest in the South.

In April and May 1996, Brubaker and three print colleagues traveled to the People's Republic of China to meet news executives in Beijing, Shanghai, Huangshan, Xian, Xiamen, Guangzhou, and finally, Hong Kong. The trip was part of a journalism exchange program funded by the US Information Agency. Brubaker and his associates were in central China, the countryside, and the mountains - as well as the big cities along the east coast.

He is past president of the Washington, DC chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. During Brubaker's tenure, his chapter was voted the best in the nation, and he was voted SPJ's outstanding member.

Brubaker taught at the University of Maryland's Writing Center. He holds a Master's degree in Government from American University and a Bachelor's in Speech from the University of Maryland at College Park. He recently retired as a Commander in the US Naval Reserve.  He is married and has four children.