{"id":32013,"date":"2013-07-01T18:05:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32013"},"modified":"2013-07-01T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T18:05:10","slug":"al-jazeera-america-signs-soledad-obrien-as-special-correspondent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32013","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera America signs Soledad O&#8217;Brien as special correspondent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/update\/al-jazeera-america-signs-soledad-obrien-special-correspondent\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera America signs Soledad O&#8217;Brien as special correspondent<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera America<\/a><br \/>\n2013-07-01<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera America, the new American news channel that will launch in August, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Emmy Award-winning journalist Soledad O\u2019Brien\u2019s production company, Starfish Media Group. O\u2019Brien will contribute short-form segments as Special Correspondent to Al Jazeera America\u2019s primetime current affairs magazine program \u201cAmerica Tonight,\u201d and Starfish will produce hour-long documentary specials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cO\u2019Brien\u2019s career producing and reporting on the human side of many of the most important stories of the past decade will fit in perfectly with what Al Jazeera America will be covering every day,\u201d said Ehab Al Shihabi, executive director of Al Jazeera\u2019s international operations and the senior executive developing the new channel. \u201cHer dedication to that type of journalism is what makes it so exciting to announce that she and her production company are joining the Al Jazeera America team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cI am thrilled to be back in business with Kim Bondy, who is a long-time friend and among the finest journalists in the broadcast news business today. With this agreement, Starfish continues its expansion as a cross-platform media company dedicated to compelling storytelling and enterprise journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;In 2011, O\u2019Brien won her first Emmy Award for \u201cCrisis in Haiti\u201d (on CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper 360) in the category of Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story \u2013 Long Form. She was also a member of the teams that earned CNN a George Foster Peabody award for coverage of the British Petroleum oil spill and of Katrina, and an Alfred I. du Pont Award for its reporting on the Southeast Asia tsunami. In 2010, the National Association of Black Journalists named O\u2019Brien its Journalist of the Year, and the Edward R. Murrow Awards recognized her with the RTDNA\/UNITY award for Latino in America.\u00a0 She received the 2009 Medallion of Excellence for Leadership and Community Service Award from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire press release <a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/update\/al-jazeera-america-signs-soledad-obrien-special-correspondent\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera America signs Soledad O&#8217;Brien as special correspondent Al Jazeera America 2013-07-01 Al Jazeera America, the new American news channel that will launch in August, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Emmy Award-winning journalist Soledad O\u2019Brien\u2019s production company, Starfish Media Group. O\u2019Brien will contribute short-form segments as Special Correspondent to Al [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,20],"tags":[15078,15079,12774],"class_list":["post-32013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-al-jazeera-america","tag-ehab-al-shihabi","tag-soledad-obrien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}