Cub reporter, 10, to report on Winter Olympics in Vancouver

By Jeff Chew
Peninsula Daily News

PORT TOWNSEND, WA -- He's Brennan LaBrie, kid reporter, a title he takes seriously -- and next week he takes it all the way to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.

At 10, LaBrie is the youngest reporter in the world known to be covering the 2010 Winter Games.

The The Brennan LaBrie YouTube Channel has over 35 videos.

He will join others with the Olympics media corps Wednesday, boarding the northbound "press train" from Seattle to Vancouver, accompanied by his mother, Colleen, and Port Townsend news video blogger and social media expert Jack Olmsted, who has acted as LaBrie's agent and new-media mentor.


Ask him how he knows he's the youngest Olympics reporter, and the articulate boy wonder shoots back with a quick answer:

"As far as I researched it on the computer, I will be the youngest working reporter." (Read More)