{"id":47569,"date":"2016-06-11T20:57:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T20:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47569"},"modified":"2016-06-11T20:57:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T20:57:27","slug":"soledad-obrien-seek-out-the-curious-and-the-fastidious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47569","title":{"rendered":"Soledad O\u2019Brien: Seek Out the Curious and the Fastidious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/12\/business\/media\/soledad-obrien-seek-out-the-curious-and-the-fastidious.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Soledad O\u2019Brien: Seek Out the Curious and the Fastidious<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/column\/corner-office\" target=\"_blank\">Corner Office<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2016-06-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytcorneroffice\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Adam Bryant<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starfishmediagroup.com\/smg-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">Soledad O\u2019Brien<\/a>, chief executive of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starfishmediagroup.com\" target=\"_blank\">Starfish Media Group<\/a>, a production company, was conducted and condensed by <strong>Adam Bryant<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What were your early years like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A.<\/strong> I grew up on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_Island\" target=\"_blank\">Long Island<\/a>, in a small town that was somewhat rural back then. I have five brothers and sisters, and I\u2019m No. 5, and my parents were both immigrants. My dad\u2019s Australian and my mom is Cuban, and my mom\u2019s black and my dad\u2019s white. That framed a lot of my thinking about the work that I would do in my career, and also how I think about big American issues.<\/p>\n<p>I did a lot of after-school activities: student council, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rotary_International\" target=\"_blank\">Rotary Club<\/a>, track, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Badminton\" target=\"_blank\">badminton<\/a> team. We didn\u2019t have a lot that you could do otherwise, so if you didn\u2019t push yourself to go do something, you just couldn\u2019t do it. There was no sitter who schlepped you to ballet classes and then made sure that your interest in art was being nurtured.<\/p>\n<p>Because we were middle class, there was not a ton of money. So if there was something I wanted, then I\u2019d have to be able to pay for it. When I was about 13, I wanted to ride horses, and I got a job <a href=\"http:\/\/horses.about.com\/od\/basiccare\/ht\/stallclean.htm\" target=\"_blank\">mucking stalls<\/a> so I could pay for riding lessons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/06\/12\/business\/media\/soledad-obrien-seek-out-the-curious-and-the-fastidious.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soledad O\u2019Brien: Seek Out the Curious and the Fastidious Corner Office The New York Times 2016-06-10 Adam Bryant This interview with Soledad O\u2019Brien, chief executive of the Starfish Media Group, a production company, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What were your early years like? A. I grew up on Long Island, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13743,14646,8,20],"tags":[21906,24058,24059,2640,12774,2327],"class_list":["post-47569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-interviews","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-adam-bryant","tag-corner-office","tag-maria-de-la-soledad-teresa-obrien","tag-new-york-times","tag-soledad-obrien","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47569","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=47569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47570,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47569\/revisions\/47570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}