Richard O'Brien (Fox News)

For other uses, see Richard O'Brien (disambiguation).

Richard "Rich" O'Brien (August 1956 – August 5, 2017)^[1] was an American television creative director known for his work at Fox News, where he worked from 1996 until his job was eliminated in May 2017.^[2] At Fox, he eventually became a senior vice president and creative director.^[3]

Biography

O'Brien was born in Connecticut.^[3] Before joining Fox, he worked as a creative director at CNBC, and later helped create America's Talking, which later became MSNBC.^[4][3][5] A 2001 New York Times Magazine article described O'Brien as one of "the two sides of FNC's brain," with the other being John Moody.^[6]