Brian Epstein (journalist)

Brian Epstein is a New York filmmaker, senior producer and investigative reporter who has worked for WNET, ABC News and PBS programming since 2006. He worked out of Arlington, Virginia for PBS. As of 2017, he was working closely with James Gordon Meek, Megan Christie and Sean Langan on stories for 20/20.

Epstein graduated in business from Skidmore College in 2001, and he intended to become a Hollywood director of feature films.[1] He was working in advertising and became obsessed with the film The Insider, which led him to explore journalism as a career. He received his 2005 Master's degree in broadcast journalism from New York University.[1]

He traveled to Bosnia to produce an independent documentary, and as offered a job with Now on PBS. When the show was cancelled, he took a job as a producer on its replacement Need to Know program. He's since travelled through the Middle East and Asia.[2][3] After 2015 he left PBS to work with Meek's team at ABC.

Epstein won a Scripps Howard award, an Edward R. Murrow Award, a Sigma Delta Chi Award and a 2019 excellence in broadcast journalism award from the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists.[4]

Epstein was part of the team that won an Emmy Award for the documentary 3212 Un-redacted on the Tongo Tongo ambush.[5] Epstein, along with Meek, appeared as a panelist at the 2021 Double Exposure Film Festival related to his work on the documentary 3212 Un-redacted on the Tongo Tongo ambush.[5][6][7][8]