Today On KING5 New Day Nortwest - I had a blast!

Today, I was on New Day Northwest with broadcast journalist and host Margaret Larson.



As a co-host, I interviewed Spanish Seattle Times Urban Sketcher Gabriel Campanario.

Read Gabriel's Seattle Times Story

Dueling Interviews

I met Kimiya Shokoohi, International Olympic Committee Youth Reporter, while in Vancouver covering the Winter Games. We spoke about her background as a journalist as well as the upcoming Youth Olympics being held in Singapore this coming August. This is the first year for this new Olympics, which will feature athletes ages 14 to 18. And this Olympics also includes workshops for the young athletes such as social responsibility, well-being and teamwork.


Kimiya reserved our roles, picked up the mic and interviewed me.

NBC TODAY Show: Pint-sized reporter covers Olympics

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NBC TODAY Show: Kid Reporter Gets Snowboarding Scoop

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A young reporter lands the interview of a lifetime with snowboard gold medalist Shaun White.

10 year old is youngest Olympic reporter

At 10 years old, Brennan LaBrie will be the youngest professional reporter at the Olympic Games next month in Vancouver. Wowzers! LaBrie, who runs his own weekly newspaper at home in Washington, will be covering all the events and games. He has already interviewed two US Olympic athletes, including speed skater Apolo Ohno. (Read More)

Vancouver meets 10-year-old reporter

By Kimiya Shokoohi

How do you picture a typical reporter? Middle-aged, a little weathered, potentially balding? How about a 10-year-old with a James Dean hairdo, a pocket full of calling cards, and who is dressed to kill, or at least, gets down to the story.

Time Magazine's kid reporter Brennan LaBrie is painting a new picture of the criteria many expect reporters to fit.

“I was into writing in first grade. Our teacher showed us that we could just make our own books,” LaBrie said about how it all began. “And one day on the swings I thought I could start my own newspaper.” (Read More)

Brennan, the boy journalist, has story of his own at Games

By SEBASTIAN FEST | DPA

VANCOUVER : Brennan LaBrie is no sportsman, but he holds one of the most curious records of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver: he is the most precocious journalist in Olympic history.

"Brennan, stop reading the papers!"

The boy, aged 10, attributes the sentence to his mother, overwhelmed by the mountains of newspapers her son reads.

"I was always curious. My mum says that one of the first things I ever learnt to say was, 'why?'" the young American tells the German Press Agency DPA.

Even as his friends were at school, Brennan spent a week-and-a-half covering the Winter Olympics. LaBrie is disconcerting, because he talks with the fluency, the speed and the vocabulary of an adult.

He was chosen for Time For Kids - the children's edition of Time magazine, which has 3.5 million subscribers - in September from among 12 candidates who had previously been shortlisted among 400 children.

LaBrie could hardly believe he was going to the Olympics.

"But they told me the prize was just to go there for one day. 'No way!' I told them. If I go to the Games it is to be with the sportspeople, to see them, to talk to them, not to visit." (Read More)

Article in Spanish
Un niño que pone la nota

Kid reporter makes his mark at Olympics

By Patrick J. Sullivan of the Leader

Brennan LaBrie is overflowing with the Olympic experience.
The Spruce Street Weekly publisher of Port Townsend, on assignment in Vancouver for Time for Kids, is back in Port Townsend from a six-day whirlwind in Canada.

"It's been an incredible week," LaBrie said Monday afternoon by telephone from Vancouver. "There is so much going on."

Look for LaBrie, 10, as the subject of a Kid Reporter feature on NBC's Today Show this week.

Like most folks, the Today Show film crew was intrigued by LaBrie and his intensity. "They were assigned to spend two hours with us, and it ended up to be about seven hours,” LaBrie noted. (Read More)

CNET: Olympic notebook: Meet the Games' Youngest Reporter

by Ina Fried

VANCOUVER--Working in the unofficial press center at Robson Square, Brennan LaBrie stands out a bit.
It's not just that he's blogging, doing podcasts, and posting to Twitter. It's that he's 10 years old. LaBrie was one of a dozen winners of a Time magazine "kid reporter" contest.

But LaBrie was already an experienced reporter before landing the Time gig. He runs a handwritten neighborhood weekly that has roughly 250 subscribers paying 25 cents an issue. (Read More)

Meet Brennan LaBrie, Youngest Reporter Covering Olympic Games

FanHouse spoke to LaBrie, who is in BC covering the games for Time for Kids, about how he became a journalist at such a young age and his experience at the games thus far.

Ariel Helwani
Ariel Helwani is a Video Reporter and Writer for FanHouse
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Brennan LaBrie is a 10-year-old from Port Townsend, Wash. He's also the youngest accredited reporter covering the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.

KING5: 10 year old selected as Olympic reporter

by Elizabeth Berman

Posted on February 16, 2010 at 9:32 AM

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Port Townsend 10 year old Brennan LaBrie will be covering the Olympic games for Time for Kids, the youth version of Time Magazine.

KING 5 Evening Magazine: The Olympics' youngest reporter

by SAINT BRYAN / Evening Magazine

Posted on February 15, 2010 at 7:27 PM

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Reporters and photographers are working around the clock to bring all the Olympics action to people worldwide! And while we don't know who the oldest journalist is, we do know the youngest - a 10-year-old kid reporter from Port Townsend.

Brennan will be covering the Olympics for 5 days beginning this Wednesday.

Olympics: 10-Year-Old Boy To Blog For News Tribune

Olympics: 10-year-old boy to blog for News Tribune

CRAIG HILL; Staff writer
Published: 02/12/1012:05 am

While stressed veteran journalists at the Winter Olympics look for bars to blow of steam during their down time, Brennan LaBrie will be looking for a swing set.

Brennan is a writer, an editor and a newspaper publisher.

He’ll cover the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C., for his newspaper, Time for Kids and The News Tribune’s Olympics blog.

Not a bad start to a journalism career, especially considering Brennan is just a 10-year-old kid from Port Townsend.

“I work really hard,” Brennan said. “But sometimes I just want to go outside and play in the mud.”

(Read More)