After a new executive pushed her out at CNN, the veteran journalist became one of mainstream media’s most fiery critics
For the first 25 years of her career, O’Brien, 53, was a high-profile broadcast journalist, winning Peabodys for her coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill, and gracing the pages of’s 50 Most Beautiful list. Yet over the past few years, she has become one of establishment media’s most fiery critics. On Twitter, where she has more than
, O’Brien regularly blasts outlets for coverage that minimizes the threats posed by Trump’s administration. “A hot mess,” she tweeted about a CNN interview with a Trump-supporting congressional candidate. Of a quote fromexecutive editor Dean Baquet about how Trump’s victory was impossible for the media to predict: “This, folks, is bullshit.”
Early in her career, O’Brien, the daughter of an Afro Cuban mother and an Irish Australian father, graduated from local NBC affiliates in Boston and San Francisco to MSNBC and NBC; when she was pregnant , Maria Shriver gave her tips for how to gracefully vomit in a trash bin off camera. In 2003, she moved to CNN, where she helmed theseries and won an Emmy for her coverage of the 2012 presidential election.
O’Brien is sanguine about the terms of her departure. “When Jeff came in I knew they were gonna go a different direction, so I was ready,” she says. It also helped that, as part of the terms of her exit, CNN became the first client for Soledad O’Brien Productions, airing documentaries like 2014’swhich focused on veterans with PTSD.
In person, O’Brien is quick to voice her criticism of well-known media figures, from CNN media reporter Brian Stelter tocolumnist Bret Stephens to Chris Cillizza . She bristles at a CNN representative’s recent comment, in response to O’Brien’s criticism of a much-maligned Cillizza column, that she has become “more of a liberal activist than a journalist.” Such a categorization, O’Brien says, is only accurate “if you consider yelling at people on Twitter activism.
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