Between September 2012 and May 2014, Brown presented the series "Where Poetry Lives" on the "NewsHour" together with Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey. They travelled through the US to report on societal issues through the lens of poetry. In 2014, Brown started presenting the "NewsHour" series "Culture at Risk" about threatened heritage in the United States and abroad. For that series, he has reported from numerous countries, including Myanmar, Peru, Mali, Nepal (after the April 2015 earthquake), Cuba, Italy, Spain, Tunisia, and South Africa. When the "PBS NewsHour" launched a monthly book club in collaboration with "The New York Times" called "Now Read This" in 2018, Brown became its host, interviewing the writers.