Media Arts Alumni Find Success After Graduating

Meet The Alumni

Jeff Brown

Jeff Brown decided it was time for him to go back to college and get a degree.

He chose Wesley College because it was near the Delaware Public Archives in Dover where he worked.

Brown started his career at Wesley in 1998, as a history major. The Veterans Administration helped pay tuition, but someone there told him he wouldn’t be able to get a job as a history major. That’s when he switched to media arts major.

“Since I’ve always been interested in writing, I went over to media arts and journalism,” Brown said. “It was a lot of fun and something I felt natural at doing.”

While in his media arts career at Wesley he focused primarily on journalism.

It felt good to be back, he said.

“Being able to go back into school again and saying, ‘Hey, look at all this new stuff I’m learning, the new people I’m meeting,’ I thought it was really stimulating, I really enjoyed it,” he said. “Since it was media arts and I like writing and dabbling in TV it was a blast for me. I really enjoyed those years.”

Brown graduated in 2001.

Immediately upon graduating, Brown started working at the Dover Post. He had done some freelance writing for them, but getting a college degree in media arts helped get him a full time job there.

“Getting the degree pretty much cemented everything,” Brown said. “I couldn’t be here if it weren’t for Wesley.”

Still a reporter at the Post, Brown reports on the state government, including Dover City Hall meetings. He also reported President Obama’s inauguration speech because former Delaware Sen. Joe Biden had become vice president.

One of Browns favorite stories was his reporting and writing about a C5 plane crash in Dover.

Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association’s First Place award for Brown’s coverage of C5 crash Photo: Linnea Cavallo

“I heard the fire sirens and the city going off at 6:45 in the morning,” he said. “I called the fire station to find out what it was, then I high tailed it out of there to get to the scene.”

Brown was the first reporter on the scene.

“I got there and saw the C5 that I have ridden in many of times in three pieces laying on the ground in the middle of a potato field,” Brown said.

Brown earned the 2006 Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association’s First Place award for his coverage of the accident.