Soledad O’Brien
After leaving CNN in 2013, O’Brien took her career into her own hands and started her own production company, Starfish Media Group. Owning the rights to her “Blacks in America” and “Latinos in America” documentary series, O’Brien now has the right to shop around the documents to any network she wants if she ever decides to revisit the series.
In addition, O’Brien and her Starfish Media Group have entered a partnership with the media outlet Al Jazeera America, to produce hour-long documentary specials for the company.
With ownership rights to all her work and a major media partnership under her belt, it looks like this award-winning journalist is ready to take her entrepreneurial skills to newer heights.