Bobbie O'Brien
Reporter - WUSFBobbie 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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Military C-130 and C-17 aircraft have been outfitted with medical equipment, as the Air Force flies patients to hospitals in the mainland U.S.Air Force… -
Family traditions and popular culture are among the things that motivate today's teenagers to join the armed forces. This year's high school graduates… -
Memorial Day can be especially difficult for relatives of service members who died by suicide. They often feel stigmatized, even around other military… -
The American Homefront Project talks with service members and veterans about who they're remembering this Memorial Day.Jim Harkins, who served in the Air… -
It was approved almost three years ago, and finally, construction could begin soon on a 120-bed VA nursing home in St. Lucie County. -
A new administrator at the Bay Pines Healthcare System is being credited by veterans for resolving a paperwork snafu that had some low income VA clients... -
When service members return from the battlefield with lifetime disabilities, their spouses often become full-time caregivers. The wars in Iraq and… -
A specialized institution of higher learning has opened a new, permanent home at Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base. The Joint Special Operations University...
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The sunshine state was well represented at the White House Wednesday as President Trump signed a bill extending and improving the Veterans Choice Act... -
A community leader and advocate for homeless people – especially veterans – has died. Bruce Fyfe served more than 23 years as chairman of the board at...
