Michelle Kosinski
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Michelle Kosinski is a foreign correspondent
for NBC News
.
She began work in broadcast journalism in Rockford, Illinois for WIFR while earning her BA and MA from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Leaving WIFR, she moved to Charlotte, North Carolina at WSOC-TV and founded the Piedmont Bureau. In 2001, she was voted the Best Reporter in Charlotte by readers of the city’s arts and entertainment magazine. In Fall of 2001, she left WSOC-TV for WTVJ in Miami. She is a 2003 Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards Craft Winner for reporting on Haitian immigrants.[2] She was also named Woman of the Year in 2005 by Women in Communications of South Florida.
That same year, Rolling Stone Magazine named her "hot reporter" in its annual Hot List.
In 2009, she won a national Emmy award for her part in live reporting on election night, for NBC News' special coverage.
2010 saw Kosinski named foreign correspondent, moving from NBC's Southeast Bureau to London.
s Hot List, as "hot reporter."
In August 2005, while covering the Natalee Holloway
disappearance in Aruba
, NBC arranged an interview with the director of Aruban prisons and a tour of suspect Joran van der Sloot
's prison. During the tour, she ran into van der Sloot and conducted an off-camera interview. Prison director Fred Maduro appeared live on MSNBC
and admitted that he offered her the tour. After Van der Sloot's attorneys called for a hearing on the matter, NBC
declined to air the footage.
In 2009, Kosinski purchased a 5.6 million dollar, 12000 square feet (1,114.8 m²) home in Coral Gables, Florida.
Michelle attended St. Charles Borromeo school, graduating with the top honors of her class, then going on to be class valedictorian at Holy Cross High School. She was a cheerleader and trained in classical ballet, also exhibiting early proficiency in writing and the creative arts.
At Northwestern University, Michelle was accepted to the Accelerated Master's Program in journalism, attaining a Bachelor's and Master's degree at graduation. Originally in the magazine writing program, she later switched to the broadcasting division.
She performed on campus and in the community as a member of NUDE, the Northwestern University Dance Ensemble.
While working as a television news photographer and reporter in Charlotte, NC, Kosinski also performed with the award-winning Piedmont Players theater group, in roles such as Elvira in Blithe Spirit and Suzanne in Don't Dress for Dinner.
Kosinski was recently engaged to a Miami businessman, but has remained single. During her years in Miami, she was a regular on the social scene but kept a low profile. However, she was known for her at times tumultuous relationships with very high-profile men. She has been linked over the years romantically with more than one CEO, a judge, a US Attorney, and a well-known real estate developer.
She is currently living in London.
Correspondent
A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator, or more general speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign...
for NBC News
NBC News
NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. It first started broadcasting in February 21, 1940. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is...
.
She began work in broadcast journalism in Rockford, Illinois for WIFR while earning her BA and MA from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Leaving WIFR, she moved to Charlotte, North Carolina at WSOC-TV and founded the Piedmont Bureau. In 2001, she was voted the Best Reporter in Charlotte by readers of the city’s arts and entertainment magazine. In Fall of 2001, she left WSOC-TV for WTVJ in Miami. She is a 2003 Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards Craft Winner for reporting on Haitian immigrants.[2] She was also named Woman of the Year in 2005 by Women in Communications of South Florida.
That same year, Rolling Stone Magazine named her "hot reporter" in its annual Hot List.
In 2009, she won a national Emmy award for her part in live reporting on election night, for NBC News' special coverage.
2010 saw Kosinski named foreign correspondent, moving from NBC's Southeast Bureau to London.
Stories covered
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aftermath - Evacuation of Americans from CyprusCyprusCyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...
, & LebanonLebanonLebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among... - KGB spy murder in London
- Britain serial killings
- Virginia Tech shootings
- Amazon tourism issues
- Terror attacks in London and Glasgow
- Utah mine collapse
- Assassination of Benazir BhuttoAssassination of Benazir BhuttoThe assassination of Benazir Bhutto occurred on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Bhutto, twice Prime Minister of Pakistan and then-leader of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party, had been campaigning ahead of elections due in January 2008...
- Presidential election 2008
- Swine flu in Mexico
- 2010 Haiti earthquake2010 Haiti earthquakeThe 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicentre near the town of Léogâne, approximately west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks...
- 2010 Chile earthquake2010 Chile earthquakeThe 2010 Chile earthquake occurred off the coast of central Chile on Saturday, 27 February 2010, at 03:34 local time , having a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, with intense shaking lasting for about three minutes. It ranks as the sixth largest earthquake ever to be recorded by a...
- Deepwater Horizon oil spillDeepwater Horizon oil spillThe Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed unabated for three months in 2010, and continues to leak fresh oil. It is the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry...
- 2010 ChileChileChile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
case against Joran Van der SlootJoran van der SlootJoran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot is a Dutch national who lived in Aruba. He has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States for wire fraud and extortion related to the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in Aruba on May 30, 2005, and is charged in Peru with the... - British royal wedding
- Berlusconi trial
- European E-coli outbreak
- 2011 London Riots2011 England riotsBetween 6 and 10 August 2011, several London boroughs and districts of cities and towns across England suffered widespread rioting, looting and arson....
- Arab Spring from Cairo, Tel Aviv, Gaza
- American hikers released from Iran to Oman
Other
In 2005, Kosinski made Rolling StoneRolling Stone
Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...
s Hot List, as "hot reporter."
In August 2005, while covering the Natalee Holloway
Natalee Holloway
Natalee Ann Holloway disappeared on May 30, 2005, during a high school graduation trip to Aruba, a Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. An American student from Mountain Brook, Alabama, Holloway graduated from Mountain Brook High School on May 24, 2005, shortly before the trip...
disappearance in Aruba
Aruba
Aruba is a 33 km-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located 27 km north of the coast of Venezuela and 130 km east of Guajira Peninsula...
, NBC arranged an interview with the director of Aruban prisons and a tour of suspect Joran van der Sloot
Joran van der Sloot
Joran Andreas Petrus van der Sloot is a Dutch national who lived in Aruba. He has been indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States for wire fraud and extortion related to the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in Aruba on May 30, 2005, and is charged in Peru with the...
's prison. During the tour, she ran into van der Sloot and conducted an off-camera interview. Prison director Fred Maduro appeared live on MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
and admitted that he offered her the tour. After Van der Sloot's attorneys called for a hearing on the matter, NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
declined to air the footage.
In 2009, Kosinski purchased a 5.6 million dollar, 12000 square feet (1,114.8 m²) home in Coral Gables, Florida.
Personal life
Kosinski was born in Willingboro, NJ in the early 1970s (1972-1974, her birth year varies in published reports) and grew up in Cinnaminson, NJ, a quiet suburb of Philadelphia. Her parents are Jeanette, a chemist, and Robert, a retired biologist who worked for the Department of Environmental Protection of the state of New Jersey. They had four children.Michelle attended St. Charles Borromeo school, graduating with the top honors of her class, then going on to be class valedictorian at Holy Cross High School. She was a cheerleader and trained in classical ballet, also exhibiting early proficiency in writing and the creative arts.
At Northwestern University, Michelle was accepted to the Accelerated Master's Program in journalism, attaining a Bachelor's and Master's degree at graduation. Originally in the magazine writing program, she later switched to the broadcasting division.
She performed on campus and in the community as a member of NUDE, the Northwestern University Dance Ensemble.
While working as a television news photographer and reporter in Charlotte, NC, Kosinski also performed with the award-winning Piedmont Players theater group, in roles such as Elvira in Blithe Spirit and Suzanne in Don't Dress for Dinner.
Kosinski was recently engaged to a Miami businessman, but has remained single. During her years in Miami, she was a regular on the social scene but kept a low profile. However, she was known for her at times tumultuous relationships with very high-profile men. She has been linked over the years romantically with more than one CEO, a judge, a US Attorney, and a well-known real estate developer.
She is currently living in London.