Miles O'Brien made an appearance on CNN International's 'World Report' on Tuesday.

Speaking from CNN's Washington bureau, O'Brien offered up his analysis on President Obama's plan to cut NASA's budget.

CNN Observations believes that this was Miles' first appearance on a CNN network since his departure in December, 2008.

This is Miles' tweet from his live hit:

In the belly. In the CNN green room. Nice to see some old friends. Weird wearing a viz pass. Appearing on CNN-I with @klstout #NASA

TVNewser has the breaking news of former American Morning, CNN Saturday Morning, Live From..., Science and Techology Week, Primetime, and Headline News anchor and current Science and Technology correspondent and The Situation Room Substitute Anchor Miles O'Brien is leaving the network after 16 years.

With his leaving, also leaving CNN are 7 producers in the Science and Techology Unit.

Read more here... including statements from CNN (if you want to call theirs a proper statement) and Miles.

Connect with Miles at www.twitter.com/milesobrien and http://www.milesobrien.com/

CNN Pressroom - ‘Critical Condition’ Installment Reveals Gaps in Health Care Coverage in U.S., Examines Debate over Issue

CNN Productions plans to produce a series of one-hour documentaries in 2008 under its successful Broken Government brand. As it did in the 2006 midterm election, the series seeks to offer clarity to the political topics receiving close attention during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign.

The first documentary in the series, Broken Government: Health Care Critical Condition, is reported by CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Critical Condition will premiere on Thursday, Jan. 31, at 11 p.m., immediately following the CNN/Los Angeles Times/POLITICO Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate and will replay on Saturday, Feb. 2, and Sunday, Feb. 3, at 11 p.m. All times Eastern.

In Critical Condition, Gupta focuses on the gaps in health care coverage experienced by the more than 45 million Americans who lack adequate health insurance. These include consumers with health insurance still vulnerable to bankruptcy by medical bills and the uninsured who cannot afford healthcare. Gupta also examines various health care plan proposals and the pros and cons of universal health care coverage in other countries.

Other Broken Government documentaries in the 2008 series will feature CNN’s Rick Sanchez taking an in-depth look at inconsistent and ineffective U.S. immigration policies; chief technology and environment correspondent Miles O’Brien investigating the impact of government policies on the environment; and a documentary on the government failures at the federal, state and local levels that continue to plague those impacted by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Additional programs in the series will be announced later in the campaign season.

Carol Kinstle is the executive producer and the director of CNN’s health and medical unit. Mark Nelson is the vice president and senior executive producer of CNN Productions.

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is the most trusted source for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; CNN Digital Network, the No. 1 network of news Web sites in the United States; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and strategic international partnerships within both television and the digital media.

CNN Pressroom - As 2007 comes to a close, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer and CNN Radio are offering affiliates a special year-end review of the past 12 months – one minute at a time – and then in a two-hour special called “2007 Rewind.”

Hosted by Blitzer, the two-hour “2007 Rewind” takes a look at some of the biggest stories of 2007 while moving some of the stories forward into the New Year. CNN journalists including Lisa Desjardins, A.J. Hammer, Ed Henry, Amanda Moyer, Miles O'Brien, Kyra Phillips, Jim Ribble, Larry Smith, Gary Tuchman and others will contribute to the program.

The one-minute features, also anchored by Blitzer, examine the biggest stories of 2007 including such topics as the Virginia Tech shootings, the Minnesota bridge collapse, the resignation of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Barry Bonds, Michael Vick, Don Imus, Britney Spears, the California fires, drought, immigration and more.

All of the content is available in a special “Year End” section of www.CNNRadio.com.

CNN Radio is a full-service network, providing its approximately 2,000 worldwide affiliates with the latest information in news, sports and business. Utilizing CNN’s 36 bureaus worldwide, CNN Radio offers an unmatched menu of actualities and reports through satellite feeds and an affiliate-accessible Web site. CNN Radio is based in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, with personnel, including radio-only correspondents, located at the CNN bureau in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and New York. CNN Radio programming is distributed exclusively for radio broadcast in the United States by Westwood One. CNN Radio audio can also be heard via a link on the www.CNN.com Web site.

No, he's not switching offices, but he sure has been working in different bureaus recently. Normally based in the New York bureau, last week he was in Atlanta co-anchoring the afternoon edition of CNN Newsroom filling in for Don Lemon and tonight he is filling in from Washington for The Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer.

Would you like to see Miles O'Brien moved back to a full-time anchor postiion? Yes No Current Results

Miles O'Brien is sitting in for Don Lemon today in the afternoon edition of CNN Newsroom.

CNN/US covered this on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer anchoring, reports from Miles O'Brien, commentary from Lou Dobbs. It will continue into Lou Dobbs Tonight at the top of the hour.

You've had a chance to preview, what do you think of CNN's new American Morning team? Love them! Bring back Miles and Soledad I miss Carol Costello! I think I'll stick with Robin and Company There's a new American Morning team? I'm a International/En Español/etc. viewer, I don't get American Morning I haven't seen them yet. Current Results

CNN Pressroom - RTNDA to Honor Christiane Amanpour with Prestigious Paul White Award for Lifetime Achievement

As the electronic journalism community descends upon Las Vegas for RTNDA@NAB next week, CNN will showcase its prominence and expertise in such areas as burgeoning journalism trends, new technologies, security coverage and online and digital ventures. In addition, the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) will present Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international correspondent, with its Paul White Award for lifetime achievement in broadcast news.

RTNDA@NAB, which will take place at the Las Vegas Hilton from Sunday, April 15, to Wednesday, April 18, stands as the premier conference and exhibition for radio, television and online news.

For the entire event, CNN Newsource, the network’s syndicated news service, will operate a booth for its affiliates at the Las Vegas Convention Center in the Silver Parking Lot, exhibit No. S100.

During a ceremony on Monday from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., RTNDA will present Amanpour with the Paul White Award, an honor established in 1956 to honor the broadcast news pioneer who served as the first news director at CBS. The award recognizes an individual’s lifetime contribution to electronic journalism. Past recipients include Charles Gibson, Charles Osgood, Ted Koppel, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Barbara Walters, Ed Bradley, Bob Schieffer, Jane Pauley, Pauline Frederick and Edward R. Murrow, as well as CNN’s own Tom Johnson, Bernard Shaw and Ted Turner.

Amanpour becomes the first full-time international correspondent to receive the award.

CNN journalists participating in panel discussions for the week include:

·Miles O’Brien, technology and environment chief correspondent, as moderator of panel “News 2.0: Surviving and Succeeding in the New Journalism World,” a strategic discussion of how news organizations adapt to burgeoning technologies and changing audiences so they can continue to be relevant tomorrow. Sunday, April 15, 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., Las Vegas Hilton, Ballroom A.

·Jamie McIntyre, senior Pentagon correspondent, as panelist for “Global, National, Local: Connecting the Security Dots,” a discussion on the best ways for the electronic news media to inform its audience about security issues at all levels. Monday, April 16, 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Las Vegas Hilton, Ballroom D.

·Sandy Malcolm, executive producer for CNN.com Video, as panelist for “Super Session: Getting Your Audience Involved,” a session to examine user-generated content online and on-air and other efforts to step away from “one-way” relationships to true interactive ones. Tuesday, April 17, 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Las Vegas Hilton, Ballroom A;

·Sandy Malcolm as panelist for “Your New Job in the Digital World,” a discussion on the skills and staffing needed for new media ventures. Tuesday, April 17, 2 to 3:15 p.m.Las Vegas Hilton, Ballroom G;

·Tyler Moody, senior producer for CNNRadio as panelist for “Go Ahead. You Can Touch It,” a hands-on session that explores the latest in radio technology. Wednesday, April 18, 9 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Las Vegas Hilton, Ballroom F.

In a related forum sponsored by the American Bar Association, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Federal Communications Bar Association, Johnita Due, senior counsel for CNN Worldwide, will serve as a speaker for “The Long and Winding Road to Live at Five,” a session about the latest legal issues related to newsgathering. That session is scheduled for Sunday, April 15, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Bellagio.

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is one of the world’s most respected and trusted sources for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; four Web sites, including CNN.com, the first major news and information Web site; CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s premium live video news service; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and partnerships for four television networks and two Web sites.

New:
Kiran Chetry
John Roberts

Revised:
Miles O'Brien (moved from Anchors to Reporters M-Z)
Soledad O'Brien (stayed in Anchors)

Head over to TVNewser.com for a live blog of Jon Klein's press conference about the CNN morning changes.

CNN Pressroom - Kiran Chetry and John Roberts will debut as the new co-anchors of CNN's flagship morning program American Morning on Monday, April 16, it was announced today by Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S. Soledad O’Brien and Miles O’Brien will remain at the network as featured special correspondents. American Morning airs on CNN/U.S. each weekday from 6 a.m. to 9 am (ET).

An award-winning veteran journalist, Roberts joined CNN in February 2006 after 14 years with CBS News as chief White House correspondent, chief medical correspondent and anchor of the Sunday edition of the CBS Evening News. Roberts has been serving as CNN's senior national correspondent, reporting extensively for CNN on politics as well as from the front lines in Iraq and last summer’s Middle East conflict, for which he recently won a prestigious National Headliner award.

Roberts reported from Baghdad and anchored the acclaimed CNN: Special Investigations Unit documentary, “Death Squads,” which examined the sectarian violence plaguing Iraq. Roberts anchors CNN’s This Week at War, the only weekly program focusing on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and America’s confrontations around the globe. He is also a main substitute on CNN programs including American Morning, Anderson Cooper 360º and Paula Zahn Now.

Chetry joined CNN in February and immediately began anchoring various CNN programs including American Morning, Anderson Cooper 360º, Paula Zahn Now and CNN Newsroom. Previously, Chetry was the anchor of Fox & Friends First and Fox & Friends Weekend for the Fox News Channel. She has covered major breaking news stories including reports from the field during the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster, the invasion of Baghdad and Hurricane Katrina.

Chetry began her journalism career at News 21 in Rockville, Md., in 1995 before moving to WICU-TV in Erie, Penn., to become an anchor and health reporter. She then served as a morning anchor and reporter for KXTV in Sacramento, Calif., before joining Fox News in 2001. Chetry received her bachelor of arts in broadcast journalism from the University of Maryland.

“I’ve admired John’s journalistic chops since we worked together at CBS more than a decade ago, and it’s not surprising that he’s now recognized as one of the premier broadcasters in the business,” Klein said. “As for Kiran, we’ve watched her light up the screen for years, and we are thrilled that she was able to join our team. She’s a breath of fresh air and a delight to work with, and it’s no wonder she’s already been embraced by CNN viewers.”

Soledad O'Brien will become anchor and special correspondent for CNN: Special Investigations Unit, reporting hour-long documentaries throughout the year and filing in-depth series on the most important ongoing and breaking news stories for all major CNN programs.

O’Brien has co-anchored CNN’s flagship morning program, American Morning, since she joined the network in July 2003 and distinguished herself by reporting from the scene on the transformational stories that broke on her watch. Her efforts following Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami in Phuket, Thailand, have earned her numerous awards and critical acclaim, further establishing her as a television journalist of the first rank. Earlier this year, the NAACP honored her with its President’s Award in recognition of her humanitarian efforts and journalistic excellence.

In recent months, O’Brien served as CNN’s point person for President George W. Bush’s visit to Mexico, delivering a series of eye-opening reports on conditions south of the border that fuel illegal immigration to the United States. She also anchored and reported a highly acclaimed CNN: Special Investigations Unit documentary featuring a never-before-seen look at Martin Luther King Jr.’s private writings, notes and teachings, which represent the foundation of King’s life’s work as a preacher and human rights activist; and her ongoing initiative entitled “Children of the Storm,” which provides video cameras to young Hurricane Katrina survivors so that they can tell their stories of trial and triumph in their own words and images.

“We are thrilled to be able to match Soledad’s passion and reporting instincts with our desire to create more long-form, investigative journalism,” Klein said. “She is the perfect person to lead our national coverage of major news stories and provide in-depth investigative reports that are the hallmark of CNN.”

Miles O’Brien becomes CNN’s chief technology and environment correspondent. O’Brien began anchoring American Morning in June 2005 and has served as the network’s space and aviation correspondent. Previously, he co-anchored the weekday newscast Live From with Kyra Phillips and anchored various other newscasts for CNN and Headline News.

Most notably, Miles has covered the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina with live reports across the region and in February 2003, O'Brien led CNN's coverage of the Columbia Space Shuttle tragedy, offering viewers exclusive information and uniquely insightful context based on his years of professional experience with and study of NASA and space exploration.

“As viewers’ concern about the environment and fascination with technology grows, there is no better guide than Miles O’Brien to separate fact from fantasy,” Klein said. “He lives and breathes this stuff and is able to explain these pressing subjects in a way that captivates and informs Americans at a critical moment in our history.”

American Morning, providing the most news in the morning on television, broadcasts weekdays from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. (ET) on CNN/U.S. Ed Litvak is the show’s executive producer.

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is one of the world’s most respected and trusted sources for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; four Web sites, including CNN.com, the first major news and information Web site; CNN Pipeline, CNN.com’s premium live video news service; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and partnerships for four television networks and two Web sites.

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