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American broadcast commentator and producer

María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien^[1] (born September 19, 1966)^[2] is an American broadcast journalist and executive producer.^[3] Since 2016, O'Brien has been the host for Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien, a nationally syndicated weekly talk show produced by Hearst Television.

She is chairwoman of Starfish Media Group, a multiplatform media production company and distributor that she founded in 2013.^[4] She is also a member of the Peabody Awards^[5] board of directors, which is presented by the University of Georgia's Henry W.

Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

O'Brien co-anchored CNN's American Morning from 2003 to 2007,^[6] and was the anchor of CNN's morning news program Starting Point from 2012 to 2013.^[7][8] In 2013, O'Brien became special correspondent on the Al Jazeera America news program America Tonight,