Soledad obrien fired from cnn

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Soledad O&#;Brien is parting ways with CNN as a Starting Point anchor and will instead deal with the network as a partner in performance of documentaries.

She won&#;t mind her new schedule. 

&#;I will not lose getting up that early, I cannot lie, not for a minute,&#; she says, laughing, in an interview on Thursday with The Hollywood Reporter.

The former NBC News anchor is still proud of her work in the prior shift on CNN &#; because even though the show didn&#;t receive &#;a ton of assist and didn’t get a ton of marketing and a ton of promotions,&#; it was fit to drive stories throughout the election. 

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&#;We had a staff of people, we never were fully staffed, where we were able to &#; in spite of not getting a lot of support &#; really make our show relevant,&#; she explains.

&#;To do that, that was pretty tremendous.&#;

As far as appearing on-camera on other networks in a reporting capacity in the future, O&#;Brien seems expose to the idea.

&#;I certainly could, I have not specifically taken any questions about that.

No one has asked me to do that,&#; she says. &#;And right now I would care to get what I’m doing [her production company] underway, but I think it’s an engaging thing to do.

She is chairwoman of Starfish Media Organization, a multiplatform media production business and distributor that she founded in Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Both attended daily Mass at the church near campus. Every day my father would offer my mother a ride.

It would really, again, depend on what the offer is &#; Theoretically, absolutely.&#;

On Thursday &#; in the arouse of reports that O&#;Brien might leave as CNN president Jeff Zucker retooled the morning programming line-up &#; the network announced a partnership with the anchor to create and air documentaries in

The announcement included a new business, Starfish Media Group, to yield long-form content for other networks and partners.

O&#;Brien describes the venture as a way to produce programming that looks at &#;under-the-radar&#; stories and sparks a conversation through thorough reporting.  

“We will produce movie-of-the-weeks, we’ll manufacture films, we’ll produce scripted TV, non-scripted TV, documentaries, curriculum, common events,&#; O&#;Brien tells THR.

&#;The plan is to get some of these stories that fly under-the-radar to be the focus of a conversation, and we can sort of take a logo that’s been very successful and leverage that a bit.&#;

&#;It’s less about quote-unquote serious journalism and more about digging in dense into an interesting story so that people can really understand&#; in a degree way, she says.

The company will produce a Black in America documentary that will be shown on CNN in and continue with a Latino in America doc production.

Roughly employees will be laid off, though the network is looking to add roughly that identical number of staffers to its digital side over the next year. Additionally, the network is reshaping its weekday lineup, which will see Jim Acosta losing his 10 a. ET display and is in talks to move to a new role. Audie Cornish will also be getting her own morning show.

The agreement with CNN is nonexclusive, meaning O&#;Brien will be &#;looking at a bunch of different partnerships, and not only networks but other producing partners,&#; she explains.

The anchor says the scale of her new organization &#; how many documentaries it produces &#; is to be determined. 

&#;That&#;s going to depend on what kind of partnerships we have and the scale of those partnerships,&#; she notes. &#;Some people have talked to me about syndication; that might be something to consider.

Other people own talked to me about going back to anchor a exhibit, which feels a little too soon for me, but that might be something to think about down the road. I believe all of those can be platforms for the kinds of conversation and partnership that we want to have.&#;

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When asked about the name of her company, Starfish Media Collective, O&#;Brien mentions that it reflects a central theme of her Haiti documentary.

A missionary in the country told her the story of a boy walking on a beach with starfish left in the sand, away from the sea.

He starts to save the starfish, but is confronted by a man who questions his motives &#; why save the starfish, when it doesn&#;t really matter? &#;The kid picks up a starfish and throws it back into the water and says, &#;Well, I guess it mattered to this one,'&#; O&#;Brien explains.

The anchor adds that her production company will similarly &#;tell those individual stories that matter, that often don’t get covered.&#;

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