David Wayne BrownDavid Wayne Brown is a former journalist, an adman, filmmaker and book author. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee where he manages a boutique creative advertising shop and pursues writing and documentary film projects. David Wayne Brown graduated with a egree in journalism from Ohio University, Athena, Ohio in 1970 and landed a job as a reporter on his home-town newspaper, The Kentucky Post, Covington, KY. He worked there 10 years, becoming the newspaper's managing editor, before taking the position of editor of the Birmingham Post-Herald, the morning paper in Birmingham, AL. Four years later he was named executive editor of the Memphis daily, The Commercial Appeal. In 1989 he purchased a music magazine, The Memphis Star, and the graphics art company that published it. This led him into the advertising field, where today he is owner and creative director of Splash Creative. In 2005 he co-directed and co-produced a documentary film, Of Good Courage, which won several independent film awards. The film told the story of a small east Texas town's heroic response when the remains of the Columbia Space Shuttle fell to earth. Read More Read Less