On Twitter, where she has more than a million followers, O’Brien regularly blasts outlets for coverage that minimizes the threats posed by Trump’s administration. Yet over the past few years, she has become one of establishment media’s most fiery critics. “Until I was telling it on Twitter.” And once she started telling stories, she found she couldn’t stop.įor 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 People’s 50 Most Beautiful list. “But the idea that I would come back with something that challenged his belief was just not acceptable.” Nonetheless, she wanted to keep her job, and she knew that speaking out would be career suicide. “I’d spent 18 months working on that doc,” the veteran journalist recalls in the office of her company, Soledad O’Brien Productions. He requested that she stop publicly speaking about young black men and police brutality. The superior, who was white, told her this experience was not specific to people of color, and that white parents had this discussion with their sons too.
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At a panel, O’Brien had said she had interviewed black parents from various socioeconomic backgrounds, all of whom said they had conversations with their sons about how to navigate interactions with police. Soledad O’Brien likes to tell a story: Eleven years ago, a senior employee at CNN - “my boss’s boss’s boss” - called her into his office to upbraid her about a comment she had made while promoting her multipart series Black in America.
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