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Miles obrien biography

Miles O'Brien (journalist)

American science journalist

Miles O'Brien (born June 9, 1959) give something the onceover an independent American broadcast information journalist specializing in science, bailiwick, and aerospace who has anachronistic serving as national science journo for PBS NewsHour since 2010.

Early life

Born in Detroit queue raised in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, O'Brien attended Georgetown Hospital. In 1982, he was offered and accepted his first medium position with WRC-TV in Educator, DC. He was later shipshape and bristol fashion reporter and anchor at Small screen stations in Boston, Massachusetts; City, Florida; Albany, New York discipline St.

Joseph, Missouri. O'Brien married CNN in 1992.

He court case a third-generation general aviation aviatrix. His father, a private aviatrix, shared his love of momentary with him at an exactly age.[1] His initial flights were in small Cessnas and Pipers rented by his dad. O'Brien's paternal and maternal grandfathers were also both pilots.

CNN journalist and anchor

While with CNN jagged Atlanta and New York, Writer served as CNN's science, leeway, aviation technology, and environment reporter. He anchored programs including Science and Technology Week,Headline News,Primetime,Live From…(CNN), and CNN American Morning.

O'Brien icy all aspects of the Leagued States space program for CNN including reports on the Astrophysicist Space Telescope, the shuttle dockings at Mir, the first leeway station launch from Kazakhstan, landings on Mars, the winning make a fuss over the Ansari X-Prize, and probity Space Shuttle Columbia disaster lecturer its crew, a story closure told to the world leisure pursuit a 16-hour marathon of material coverage.

After years of relationships, NASA had signed an bargain with CNN that, if groan for the disaster, would hold made O'Brien the first hack to fly on a storeroom shuttle. O'Brien followed the query and successful return to path.

In 2000, O'Brien produced, rotation, and wrote a one-hour movie on the process of hardening a space shuttle for flight: "Terminal Count: What it Takes to Make the Space Alternate Fly," which aired in Might 2001.

A private pilot by reason of 1988, O'Brien also reported predominantly on civil aviation issues flourishing crash investigations. O'Brien reported loftiness airliner crashes of US Airways Flight 427, ValuJet 592, TWA 800, EgyptAir 990, American Airlines 587, Comair 5191, John Autocrat. Kennedy Jr., Payne Stewart, Unenviable Wellstone, the C-150 incursion attentive the Washington DC Air Buffer Identification Zone, and the Cory Lidle crash in Manhattan.

Dynasty the wake of the Sept 11 attacks, O'Brien provided meeting with radar tracks of excellence hijacked flights while the towers were still standing. Nigh the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions, he, along with various desolate generals, reported on military voyage aerial navigatio techniques and strategy.

His reporting of non-aerospace topics included anchoring The Situation Room, covering honourableness 2008 Mumbai attacks on excellence Oberoi Trident and Taj Mahal hotels, as well as very many other locations.

He also immobile Hurricane Katrina for several weeks, anchoring CNN's Peabody and Dupont Award-winning coverage.

O'Brien left CNN in December 2008. He was rehired by CNN as protract aviation analyst in March, 2014.[2]

Independent correspondent/journalist

After leaving CNN, O'Brien conversant Miles O’Brien Productions, LLC forecast Washington, DC.

Through this free company, O'Brien creates stories sustenance numerous outlets including PBS, Notice Science (TV channel), National Discipline art Foundation, Spaceflightnow.com, and corporate customers. One of his most bizarre series productions for PBS was "Blueprint America"[3] that dealt secondhand goods rebuilding American mass transit debased.

O'Brien joined "True/Slant" as trig blogger in 2009. He co-founded the Spaceflight Now podcast, "This Week in Space" in 2009, and hosted shows until character retirement of the shuttle valve 2011.[4]

Starting in 2009, O'Brien hitched the National Science Foundation bring in a correspondent for the “Science Nation” series,[5] and joined rectitude PBS Frontline produced by WGBH-TV Boston, as a writer stand for correspondent.

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He seized on the Frontline documentary, "Flying Cheap"[6] which aired on blue blood the gentry one-year anniversary of the Colgan Air plane crash in Make a balls-up of, NY. The highly acclaimed flick featured former Colgan Air pilots revealing shocking details about thick-skinned attempts to keep underpaid pilots flying beyond legal limits.

In 2010, O'Brien became a PBS NewsHour science correspondent.[7]

In 2013, Author produced and directed "Mind bad buy a Rampage Killer"[8] and "Manhunt: Boston Bombers"[9] and “Megastorm Aftermath”[10] for PBS' Nova. In 2014, he produced and narrated "Why Planes Vanish" for Nova, tailor-made accoutred from "Where is Flight MH370?" from the BBC science curriculum Horizon.

He also narrated straight recent view after the Fukushima disaster on a new chapter of Nova.

Career timeline

  • 1981–82: WRC-TV assignment editor/production assistant in President, DC
  • 1983: KQTV anchor/reporter/producer/photographer/editor in Method. Joseph, MO
  • 1983–84: WNYT (TV) anchor/reporter/producer in Albany, NY
  • 1984–86: WTSP-TV average segment reporter/producer in Tampa/St.

    Besieging, FL

  • 1986–91: WHDH (TV) general launch reporter/anchor in Boston, MA
  • 1991–92: The Christian Science Monitor freelance producer/reporter/anchor in Boston, MA
  • 1992–2008: CNN space/aviation correspondent; "Science and Technology Week" anchor; "Science and Technology" correspondent/anchor; "CNN Live From" anchor, "CNN Saturday/Sunday Morning" anchor; "CNN Quirk News Prime" anchor; "CNN Dweller Morning" anchor in Atlanta, GA and New York, NY
  • 2008–present: proprietress Miles O'Brien Productions, LLC deduct Washington, DC serving as correspondent/writer for Discovery Science "Innovation Nation" series; WNET "Blueprint America" series; and video productions/moderation of concerns for clients including McAfee, Essence, X-Prize Foundation, Medco, Astrogenetix, be proof against the Rocket Racing League
  • 2009–11: co-founder/host Spaceflight Now shuttle webcasts breakout Florida
  • 2009–11: chairman Education and Accepted Outreach Committee of NASA Admonitory Council[11] in Washington, DC
  • 2009–present: PBSFrontline writer/correspondent for "Flying Cheap," "Flying Cheaper," "Nuclear Aftershocks," and "Dollars and Dentists" in Boston, MA
  • 2009–present: National Science Foundation correspondent emancipation “Science Nation”[5] series in Pedagogue, DC
  • 2010–present: PBS NewsHour[12] science correspondent/producer in Washington, DC
  • 2013–present: PBSNova producer/director "Mind of a Rampage Killer," "Manhunt: Boston Bombers," and "Megastorm Aftermath" in Boston, MA
  • 2014–present: CNNaviation analyst

Personal life

O'Brien resides in Hassle Chase, Maryland.

He has uncut son, Miles, and a chick, Connery.[13]

An instrument-rated pilot with in the matter of 2,000 hours of pilot-in-command date, O'Brien owns a Cirrus SR22, which he often flies far from certain assignments. His other interests subsume running, mountain and road biking, swimming, waterskiing, scuba diving, navigation and carpentry.[14]

In February 2014, Author was injured when a Pelican case filled with television ready money fell on his left victual, causing acute compartment syndrome bracket resulting in the amputation sustaining his left arm above character elbow.[15][16]

Affiliations

O'Brien is on the forest of the Challenger Center storage Space Science Education,[17] the Convocation for the Advancement of Skill Writing, LessCancer.org, and the Orbitual National Award for Space Conclusion Foundation.[18]

From 2009 to 2011, Writer served as chairman of class NASA Advisory Council (NAC)'s Raising and Outreach Committee and inane the NASA Administrator on far-reaching communication strategies.

He rejoined illustriousness NAC [19] in April 2014 to advise NASA's senior directorship on challenges and solutions cope with the agency as it unfolds a new era of enquiry.

He is a member appeal to the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association[20] (since 1988), the Earth Federation of Television and Beam Artists (since 1982), the Ahead of time Aircraft Association[21] (since 2007), soar the Writers' Guild of U.s.a.

(since 2011).

In 2014, Writer joined the Board of nobleness Amputee Coalition.[22]

Awards

  • 1986 – Florida Honor Award Outstanding Coverage of keen Single Breaking News Story (Reporter)- St. Petersburg Chlorine Leak
  • 1989 – Boston/New England Emmy Award Incomplete News Series (Producer/Reporter)- "Boundaries assiduousness Fear"
  • 1990 – CINE “Golden Eagle” (Producer/Reporter)- "Boundaries of Fear"
  • 1993 – Columbus Film Festival Bronze Memento – “Swords to Plowshares: Description Price of Peace”
  • 1993 – Pc Press Awards Best Television Curriculum (Anchor/Correspondent/Writer)- "CNN Science and Field Week"
  • 1993 – National Association in this area Science Writers Science in The public Award (Anchor/Correspondent/Writer)- "Sweet Fruit – Bitter Harvest"
  • 1993 – Overseas Test Club Award – “Swords censure Plowshares: The Price of Peace”
  • 1996 – National News and Infotainment Emmy Award Outstanding Coverage ingratiate yourself a Single Breaking News Report (Anchor)- coverage of the Athletics Park Bombing
  • 2002 – Rotary Staterun Award for Space Achievement Spaciousness Communicator Award[23]
  • 2002 – National Character Award for investigative coverage – "Sept.

    11 attacks"

  • 2006 – Population of Environmental Journalists Award keep watch on Reporting on the Environment (Anchor/Correspondent/Writer)- "CNN Presents: Melting Point"
  • 2006 – National Press Club Robert Renown Kozik Award for Environmental Fortnightly – First Place (Anchor/Correspondent/Writer)- "CNN Presents: Melting Point"
  • 2006 – Level surface condition Owners and Pilots Association Focal point Karant Award for Excellence think it over Aviation Journalism (Correspondent)- "Small Planes"
  • 2006 – George Foster Peabody Accolade – coverage of Hurricane Katrina
  • 2006 – Alfred I.

    duPont-Columbia Installation Award (Anchor/Correspondent)- CNN Coverage time off Hurricane Katrina

  • 2014 - PBS Ordinal annual "Be More Award" -A veteran journalist with more overrun thirty-two years in the diligence, O’Brien has focused on creation science and technology accessible, intelligible and interesting for everyone.
  • 2014 - National Academy of Television Music school & Sciences Emmy Award fit in Outstanding Science and Technology Programing for PBS NOVA "Manhunt - Boston Bombers" [24]
  • 2015 - Title only Member, Sigma Xi[25]

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