Newsmax announces that Bob Brooks joins the organization as anchor and correspondent for the Newsmax channel. Brooks most recently served as a general reporter and anchor for WPVI-TV, Philadelphia. Newsmax EVP of programming Elliot Jacobson states, “Growing up in a small Pennsylvania town next to a family-owned farm to covering big stories in some of the nation’s largest cities, Bob has developed a reporter’s instinct about the news that’s important to Americans.” Brooks comments, “I am glad to go national on a network like Newsmax, with a growing news brand and a team of talented professionals who care about news and the public’s right to know.”