Her Own Boss: Soledad O'Brien

In a Rolling Stone magazine article, "Soledad O’Brien Isn’t Holding Back Anymore," they say that "After a new executive pushed her out at CNN, the veteran journalist became one of mainstream media’s most fiery critics."

She tells how when she was an anchor there, a CNN executive admonished her for a comment she had made while promoting her series Black in America. and requested that she stop publicly speaking about young black men and police brutality.

That was a story that CNN didn't allow her to tell, but now via Twitter and with her own company, Soledad O’Brien Productions, she does get to tell the stories that resonate with her.

At 53, she has spent half her life as a broadcast journalist, winning Peabody Awards for her coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill, and gracing the pages of People’s 50 Most Beautiful list.

As the article points out, the past few years, she has become "one of establishment media’s most fiery critics." Her million+ Twitter followers frequently have blasts at outlets (including CNN) for weak coverage of Trump’s administration and other issues.

But all the bridges she crossed were not burned. When she left CNN, part of her deal was that CNN would be the first client for Soledad O’Brien Productions and she ended up doing some of those tough stories, like "The War Comes Home" on veterans with PTSD.

Based in New York, she spends one day each week in DC to record her syndicated TV talk show, Matter of Fact where she is the boss.