Wesley Brown / Arkansas Advocate

Little Rock native Wesley Brown has more than 40 years of experience in the news industry as a financial and political journalist. Most recently, Brown oversaw the editorial and advertising operations of the Daily Record as publisher of Arkansas’ oldest weekly business publication.

Brown also seeks to broaden the news perspective in Central Arkansas, and mentors budding journalists. Wesbro Communications LLC, a media relations and publishing firm Brown started in 2008, owns and operates Arkansas Black Vitality magazine and online news platforms, BlackConsumerNews.com and ArkansasDeltaInformer.com. Brown started his career in the late 1980s as one of the first Black journalists at the Tulsa World, where he was part of the award-winning staff that covered the Oklahoma City bombing. He also gained national recognition for his reporting on the global consolidation of the oil industry.

He covered OPEC and global oil conglomerates in the 1990s as the chief energy correspondent for Bridge News and Reuters business newswires. Brown became the business editor for the Stephens Media newspaper in Fayetteville after leaving Reuters. He later joined Stephens’ Arkansas News Bureau in Little Rock as senior business and financial reporter while also covering politics at the State Capitol.

Today, Brown is a frequent political and business news analyst on Arkansas Week with Steve Barnes and KARN and hosts a weekly news talk show on KABF FM. His reporting on corporate news, the energy industry and the stock market has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Dow Jones international newswire.