Bobbie O'Brien
Bobbie O’Brien has been a Reporter/Producer at WUSF since 1991. She reports on general news topics in Florida and the Tampa Bay region.
Bobbie also produces the blog, Off the Base, and covers military affairs, veterans’ issues and military families. She was named a Rosalyn Carter Fellow in 2010-2011. She supervises WUSF’s news interns and frequently contributes to NPR programs.
Prior to joining WUSF, she worked at WTVT- TV as a researcher/segment producer, at the Tampa Tribune and at WFLA-TV. She attended Kent State University and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications from the University of South Florida in 1980.
Her work has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Radio and Television News Directors Association, Public Radio News Directors Inc., American Women in Radio & Television, the Florida Associated Press and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
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The Rays are looking for the community solidarity that was shown after the 9-11 attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing. -
Professors from the University of Florida have developed a mosquito trap that they say could help prevent the spread of the Zika virus. Professor Phil... -
Army Private Leo Kenneth Chalcraft was a green-eyed, brown-haired teen from St. Petersburg, FL when he was killed in action in World War II. It happened… -
Rays team president Brian Auld doesn't have a launch date for the website, but said it will be up in a matter of weeks. -
The nation will remember those killed while serving their country on Memorial Day in just over a week. But a local group called Veterans Counseling… -
The toughest writing assignment 16-year-old Konner Ross will have this year is to write a eulogy for a young man she’s never met. But there’s a part of… -
It was supposed to be “The War To End All Wars.” But World War I lasted more than four years: July 1914 to November 1918. More than 20 million soldiers… -
At least two Florida Republicans in Congress have broken with their party and are calling on the GOP leadership to approve $1.9 billion in emergency… -
When’s the last time you received a personal, handwritten or typed letter in the mail – snail-mail that is? There’s a concern that emails have turned… -
Many endured starvation, torture, forced labor, and others died unable to return home. They are the former POWs who will be honored Saturday during the…
