Miles O'Brien (journalist)

Miles O'Brien (b. 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 AM. 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 the Detroit area and attended University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe, 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. Miles O'Brien is an Irish American. He is noted for his curly black hair and crystal blue eyes. This has given him a large female and gay male following.

External links

• Miles O'Brien, CNN.com biography