Soledad O'Brien to Host 2023 Golden Mike Dinner & Ceremony

RADIO ONLINE | Monday, February 6, 2023

Broadcasters Foundation of America

The Broadcasters Foundation of America is has announced the host for this year's BFOA Golden Mike Award dinner and ceremony will be broadcast journalist and syndicated talk host Soledad O'Brien. The 2023 BFOA Golden Mike Award gala will take place Monday, March 6, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The annual event is the biggest fundraiser for the Broadcasters Foundation, whose sole mission is to provide aid to radio and television professionals in acute need.

O'Brien currently hosts the syndicated "Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien," which is produced by Hearst Television. She has anchored shows on CNN, MSNBC, and NBC, hosted projects for Fox and A&E, and contributed to Oxygen, Nat Geo, the PBS NewsHour and WebMD.

We're very excited to have Soledad host this year's Golden Mike Award dinner," said Broadcasters Foundation President Tim McCarthy. "She is a multiple award-winning broadcast journalist whose reporting has brought awareness on numerous issues to the forefront. Combined with her philanthropic endeavors, she is the perfect person to host our special evening."

As a result of her coverage of the Haiti earthquake, the 2012 election and a series called "Kids and Race," O'Brien was honored with three Emmy awards. Her reporting on Hurricane Katrina and the BP Gulf Coast Oil Spill earned her two George Foster Peabody awards, and her coverage on the Southeast Asia tsunami garnered CNN an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award. She and her husband, Brad, founded the PowHERful Foundation in 2011 following Hurricane Katrina to help young women attend colleges and complete their degrees.

As previously announced, this year's BFOA Golden Mike Award honoree will be FOX Television Stations CEO Jack Abernethy. The Lifetime Achievment Award will be presented during the gala frundraiser to Richard E. Wiley, former Chairman, Commissioner, and General Counsel of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and one of the most prominent media and telecommunications lawyers in broadcasting.

More information, including how to make a donation or apply for aid, is available at broadcastersfoundation.org.