CNN Anchor Pamela Brown Attended Camp Mystic As A Child

CNN Anchor Pamela Brown attended Camp Mystic, the girls’ summer camp in Hunt, Texas, 30 years ago. She talked about the experience she described as taking place at a “magical place” for generations of girls. Today, she returned to Camp Mystic to cover the aftermath of a devastating flash flood along the Guadalupe River, which rose over 20 feet in under two hours, impacting the camp and surrounding areas. 

Reporting for CNN, Brown noted the emotional weight of seeing a place of joy and childhood memories scarred by tragedy, stating, “That river was the source of so much joy and fun for us... To think that that same river is the source of this devastation, it’s just hard to wrap my head around.” Her coverage highlighted the ongoing search for survivors, including 27 people from Camp Mystic, amid the flood’s destruction.

Pamela Brown reports from Camp Mystic, where she was a camper 30 years agohttps://t.co/sH72J1virX

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She currently co-hosts The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown weekdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET, a role she has held since March 2025. 

Brown has had a distinguished career at CNN since joining in 2013, covering major stories such as the Trump administration, the Mueller investigation, and the COVID-19 pandemic. She led an investigative series exposing decades of sexual assault cover-ups within the U.S. Coast Guard, earning multiple awards, including the Edward R. Murrow Award and a National Headliner Award. 

Before CNN, she worked at ABC’s WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., where she was a weekend anchor and earned an Emmy nomination for her reporting on human trafficking. Brown graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in broadcast journalism and holds a master’s in law studies from George Washington University.