The Irish American Media Top 30

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This year, some of the finest media professionals are being honored in The Irish American Media Top 30.  Here are their profiles:

Margaret Brennan

Margaret Brennan is the anchor of Bloomberg Television’s InBusiness with Margaret Brennan, which airs weekdays from 10 a.m.-noon.

Since joining Bloomberg in July 2009, Brennan hosted Bloomberg Television’s first live broadcast from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she interviewed Saudi Finance Minister Ibrahim bin Abdul Aziz al-Assaf and former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.  She has also reported live from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and exclusively covered the Global Irish Economic Forum in September 2009.

Previously, Brennan was a general assignment reporter for CNBC and a contributor to NBC’s Today Show, Nightly News and MSNBC.

Brennan began her business news career at CNBC in 2002 as a producer for financial news legend Louis Rukeyser.

Brennan graduated with highest distinction from the University of Virginia with a BA in Foreign Affairs and Middle East studies and a minor in Arabic language. She was named an Emmerich-Wright scholar for an outstanding thesis.

As a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, Brennan studied Arabic at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan.  Brennan is a Whitehead Fellow with the Foreign Policy Association and serves on the advisory board of the Smurfit School of Business at the University College Dublin.

A third generation Irish American, Brennan’s father’s family came from Galway and Bantry Bay, and her mother’s from Sligo.

 
Patti Ann Browne

Patti Ann Browne was named news anchor for Fox News Channel in August 2000.

She joined Fox from MSNBC, where she hosted Weekend Morning Line, anchored weekday updates and breaking news, and reported from the field.

Before that, Browne worked at News 12 Long Island, a 24-hour cable news channel in New York. She co-anchored the channel's morning show and hosted Reporter Roundtable, a weekly news talk show.

Browne began her career at WLIM Radio on Long Island as morning news anchor. Her first television job was as anchor and news director of WLIG-TV 55, seen in New York City and Long Island, from which she went on to become an anchor/reporter for WSJV-TV in South Bend, Indiana.