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Soledad in 1998
	Transition At the cancellation of THE SITE at MSNBC on September 18, 1997, Soledad was still under contract to NBC. She started the year as a substitute anchor on NBC's "The News With Brian Williams." She also did stories for NBC's Weekend Today Show.
	At MSNBC Soledad contributed a technology column to MSNBC.COM. She was also a contributing editor for USA Weekend Magazine.
	Weekend Today Soledad O'Brien started as co-anchor of "Weekend Today," NBC's top-rated weekend morning news program, in July 1998. In addition to her responsibilities at "Weekend Today," O'Brien continued to file reports for "Nightly News" during the week and on its weekend editions. She also served as anchor for MSNBC's "Morning Blend," a two-hour news talk show on Saturday and Sunday mornings. O'Brien has covered a number of major breaking news stories for both NBC and MSNBC, including the special coverage of John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s plane crash, the high school shootings in Littleton, Colorado and Springfield, Oregon and the fatal Alabama tornadoes.
	She also traveled to Cuba to cover the Pope's historic visit in January 1998. During that trip she was able to make contact with relatives of her mother still living in Cuba. You can read a transcript of an online chat session that Soledad conducted from Cuba for MSNBC. Soledad O'Brien's Cuban video diary for MSNBC contained her personal observations on returning to her ancestral homeland.
	At Brown University Soledad was the keynote speaker at the Latina Women's Day banquet at Brown University. O'Brien spoke of her early days in TV news starting out in Boston in 1988. Her talk stressed integrity and fearlessness in acheiving goals, and the importance of mentors throughout her career: "...they taught me, really, to be fearless. Not everyone's going to love you all the time. Once you come to that sort of understanding, you sort of get over wanting to be loved at all. They also told me to not be afraid to walk away. Don't compromise your integrity and value your integrity over everything else and to remember that the job of a journalist is to serve the public." O'Brien was brought to Brown by the Delta chapter of the Sigma Lambda Upsilon Sorority. source: MSNBC.com
	As Women's Wire's resident technology expert, Soledad anchors their program, Plugged In , conducting interviews with high-tech execs and women who use everyday technology to further their businesses. Some of those pieces were available at: http://www.women.com/tech/spotlight/more.html