Brian Andrews oversees and anchors Colombia's first ever english language newscasts for RCN Television. Before starting the project in July of 2008, Brian was an International Journalist based in Bogota. His clients include Al-Jazeera TV, CBS News, CBS News Radio, and the Miami Herald. Brian has also worked as a consultant and special projects producer for Colombia's Caracol Network, assisting with the production of a news documentary on the drug war.
For more than a decade, Brian was one of the most popular news reporters on South Florida television. Whether it was breaking news, politics, a huge international story, or a major storm, viewers expected Brian to be on the story. During his many years on Miami Television, he reported from Cuba, Colombia, the Bahamas, Haiti, Italy, Israel, Jamaica, Peru, Thailand, Sri Lanka and throughout the Caribbean.
Brian joined the CBS family as a national correspondent for CBS Newspath in the summer of 2004. Six months later, he came to CBS4 as an anchor and investigative reporter. In September 2007, he was named the station's Senior Reporter. In December 2007, Brian decided he wanted to report from Latin America. He left CBS and headed to Bogota, to work as a freelance correspondent and develop other TV projects.
Reporting the news has been Brian's passion since he was a child. He had his own radio show at the age of 13. At 18, while attending Georgia State University in Atlanta, he joined the staff of the CNN Radio Network. After several years of working almost every job in the radio division, he made the transition to the TV side of CNN, at 21, becoming an anchor of the Emmy-nominated "CNN Newsroom" program. After Atlanta, it was on to Miami, where Brian was a long-time reporter and anchor at WSVN7.
Brian has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists for his foreign reporting, and by several South Florida federal and local law enforcement agencies for his local reporting and special series. He was also part of the CBS4 team of journalists recoginized with the Edward R. Murrow Award for coverage of the Federal Air Marshals Shooting at MIA in 2006.
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