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Professional information

Name: Miles O'Brien
Title/position: Board member
Biography: Miles O'Brien was chosen to lead the PBS NewsHour's Science News Unit following a 17-year tenure as CNN's chief technology and environment correspondent. During his service at CNN, he also did stints as anchor of various newscasts including Live From and American Morning. He contributed to CNN's Peabody Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath with live reports across the U.S. Gulf Coast. An instrument-rated pilot with several hundred hours of flight time in a dozen types of aircraft, O'Brien covered all aspects of manned spaceflight, as well as unmanned scientific missions. Before joining CNN in April 1992, O'Brien was a general assignment reporter and anchor at TV stations in Boston, Tampa, Albany and St. Joseph, MO. He began his broadcast career in 1982 as an assignment editor at WRC-TV in Washington, DC. O'Brien is the recipient of many honors including Space Communicator Award from the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement; a News and Documentary Emmy Award for CNN's coverage of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta; and an Overseas Press Club Award for a 1994 documentary on post-Cold War technology conversion in the United States and Russia.
Web site address: http://milesobrien.com