Miles O'Brien (journalist)
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Miles O'Brien (born June 9, 1959) is a technology and environmental correspondent for CNN. He formerly co-hosted American Morning, a weekday morning news program, alongside Soledad O'Brien (no relation), and co-hosted Live From, a weekday afternoon show on CNN's North American feed, alongside Kyra Phillips prior to American Morning. He also had a short stint as a co-anchor (with Andrea Thompson) at Headline News.
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.[1]
O'Brien is originally from Detroit, Michigan, USA and attended University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe Woods, and 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 KQTV 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 1984 methyl isocyanate gas leak disaster in Bhopal. In 1987, he went to report at WNEV-TV, now WHDH-TV in Boston.
O'Brien was awarded the Space Communicator Award from the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement for outstanding media coverage of space reporting.
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- Miles O'Brien, CNN.com biography
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