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Like no other member of the media, TV anchors have a relationship with the audience that is as close as family, even though it's mostly a one-way relationship.

When an anchorperson is pregnant, it becomes not only an ongoing news story, it can be a marketing opportunity for the station.

https://www.facebook.com/BrookeMartinTV/videos/172510673663007/

Brooke Martin's journey, however was a gut-wrenching story that may save other children.

The Indianapolis news anchor's baby lived for 22 minutes after she was born last week, Martin announced this morning on her Facebook page while promising to continue telling the story of anencephaly that leaves newborns with no top of the skull or brain.

https://www.facebook.com/BrookeMartinTV/posts/2126401180746650

The death didn't come as a shock to Martin's fans. She revealed the diagnosis in a post and story on the station website last November.

https://www.facebook.com/BrookeMartinTV/videos/351955878712069/

"I thought that leading up to the delivery I would be filled more and more with just kind of uncertainty and dread and just anxiety, and really the opposite has happened," she said in an update last week. "Don't get me wrong, we've had periods that have been very emotional and uncertain, but this week has brought incredible renewed hope and strength and peace."

"Emma Noelle changed our lives," Martin wrote in Tuesday's post.