Journalism and Science Under Pressure: A Deep Cut Conversation with Miles O'Brien

This month’s conversation features Miles O’Brien, a former CNN anchor and correspondent who has spent the past decade reporting on science, aviation, and technology as an independent journalist and filmmaker for PBS News Hour, NOVA, and Frontline.We spoke with Miles in January while he was aboard a scientific research vessel in Antarctica, just miles from the Thwaites Glacier—one of the most consequential and closely watched indicators of climate change on the planet. From that literal edge of the Earth, Miles joined us to reflect not only on what science is telling us but also on what journalism must do when evidence collides with politics, polarization, and a media system built for speed and clicks rather than getting the story right.