Miles O'Brien (journalist)
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Miles O'Brien (b. June 9, 1959) is a news anchor and reporter for CNN. He formerly co-hosted Live From, a weekday afternoon show on CNN's North American feed, alongside Kyra Phillips. He became a co-host of American Morning, alongside Soledad O'Brien (no relation) on June 20, 2005.
A licensed aircraft pilot, O'Brien is widely recognized as CNN's in-house expert on aviation, space exploration and space technology. He took over from John Holliman who was killed in a car accident in 1998. Prior to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, NASA was reportedly close to announcing that O'Brien would be, or would be a candidate to be, the first American journalist in space. After the destruction of the Columbia and a suspension of the Space Shuttle program, the idea was shelved [link]. O'Brien was awarded the Space Communicator Award from the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement for outstanding media coverage of space reporting. Ironically, there is a character named Miles O'Brien on the science fiction televison program and The Next Generation
O'Brien is originally from the Detroit area and attended the prestigious University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe, later graduating from Georgetown University. He began his career in journalism at WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. as an assignment editor in 1982. He would later go on to St. Joseph, Missouri, then to WNYT-TV in Albany, New York. He later went to WTSP-TV in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he won his first Emmy Award for coverage of the 1986 chlorine gas leak disaster in Bhopal. In 1987, he went to report at WCVB-TV in Boston.
On January 24, 2006, Miles O'Brien was in a live discussion on "American Morning" at 7:50 AM EST about the possible shutdown of BlackBerry service. During the piece, the technical correspondent and Miles decided to email each other on their Blackberrys to give an example of the technology for viewers. Miles emailed a message to the technical correspondent, who then opened it and showed it to the camera. The email itself contained Miles' personal contact information.
O'Brien has had his fair share of awkward moments on the air. In a recent special, O'Brien hinted that in the future women would be giddy over the invention of an "orgasmatron".
External links
- [Miles O'Brien], CNN.com biography
- [Miles O'Brien on Media Matters]
- [Miles O’Brien Reveals Cell Phone Number]
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