Hilary Brown

Hilary Brown is a Canadian journalist whose career spanned for almost four decades. Brown is regularly characterized as a ground-breaker, for working as a foreign correspondent and a war correspondent, when women rarely posted to dangerous locations.

Initially she covered Canadian news, for CBC News. In 1971 she made the decision to become a foreign correspondent. Over most of the next four decades she worked as a foreign correspondent and war correspondent for all three of the USA's main networks. In 2015, the New York Times explicitly named Brown's work as an inspiration for women serving as war correspondents today.

In 1975 Brown was among the last to evacuate during the fall of Saigon. She reported on how the US Navy took the extraordinary step of pushing recently arrived helicopters, carrying desperate evacuees, off their aircraft carriers' decks, into the sea, because their hangars were full. Footage of her report of these helicopters being junked has been very widely rebroadcast, including being used in the Oscar winning film, "The Deer Hunter".