User:Justin B. O'Brien

Justin O’Brien is an award winning multimedia journalist based in Los Angeles.

During the past two decades Justin O'Brien reported on the 1994 Los Angeles Earthquake, the Columbine School shooting, Academy Award ceremonies, 1996 Summer and 2002 Winter Olympics, the US Masters Golf and Presidential election campaigns and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

In 2003, Justin covered the invasion of Iraq– filing reports from the Kuwaiti desert, Umm Qasr, then British liberated Basra and the US occupied Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

More recently, Justin has covered the death of Whitney Houston, the Iowa Republican Caucus, Mexico's drug war, Steve Jobs death, the 2012 Academy Awards and Grammy Awards.

A multimedia journalist, Justin gained his on-camera reporting experience as a journalist with National Nine News in Darwin. A aggressive newsgatherer, Justin was on the frontline reporting on the 2006 Katherine Floods, Category 5 Cyclone Monica as it approached the Northern Territory coast, violent uprisings in East Timor as well as the assassination attempt on President Jose Romas Horta and a 7 point 6 earthquake which devastated Padang in southern Sumatra Indonesia.

In 2007, Justin reported from Afghanistan while traveling with Australian troops based in the Southern Uruzgan Provience. Justin was onboard an Australian CH-47 helicopter targeted by Taliban fighters. Video footage showed a rocket propelled grenade missing the CH-47 by less than 20 meters.

Justin diversified his abilities by employing his talent in 2009 as a multimedia journalist with the NT News based in Darwin, Australia. While reporting at the NT News, Justin broke several exclusive stories. Notably, a story about a police raid on the house of then Darwin Lord Mayor Graeme Sawyer. The story prompted NT Police to ‘tap’ Justin's phone records in an attempt to identify his confidential sources after he refused to reveal his sources to police investigators.

Justin O'Brien is currently a freelance news cameraman/editor and multimedia journalist based in Los Angeles. His network of clients include CBS Newspath, Nine Network Australia, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Seven Network Australia, Al Jazeera and CCTV.

Born in Canberra Australia, Justin graduated from Daramalan College. He studied news writing at UCLA in Los Angeles as well as Business and American History at Santa Monica College.

In 2011, Justin won a Northern Territory Media Association Award for best online reporting and was a finalist in the best scoop/newsbreaker category.

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