Seattle Times, United States - Aaron Brown, the former CNN anchor, is joining the PBS series "Wide Angle," ending his on-air absence of more than two years.

"If I was going to do broadcast journalism again, be a public person again ... then it had to be something different from what I'd done," Brown said. "You can count on one hand how many gigs there are like this."

Anchoring "Wide Angle," a weekly public-affairs series with a global focus, offers the chance "to work in an environment where people just think about making good TV and good journalism," Brown said.

"By the end [of an episode], you understand