Michelle Kosinski

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Michelle Kosinski
Born
Willingboro, New Jersey, United States
NationalityAmerican
Occupation Journalist
Known for NBC News/CNN correspondent
SpouseKimbell Duncan (2014–present)
Children2

Michelle Kosinski is an American journalist, host, and public speaker. She most recently wrote and hosted the podcast The Perfect Scam. Previously she was a Senior Diplomatic Correspondent for CNN and White House Correspondent for CNN until 2019. [1]

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She was a foreign correspondent for NBC News based in London (2010–2014); before that, she was a correspondent based in Miami (2005–2009). [2]

She has covered numerous international news stories, including the US war in Afghanistan, the Arab Spring, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the Haiti earthquake, the BP oil spill, the Virginia Tech shootings, the Obama White House, and the tenure and firing of Rex Tillerson.

Career

Kosinski 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 and was named Woman of the Year in 2005 by Women in Communications of South Florida. [3]

Kosinski has covered such world events as the War in Afghanistan, terrorist plots in Europe, international court cases, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. [4]

In 2005, Kosinski did an on-air report for NBC while covering flooding in New Jersey, paddling a canoe as she spoke, in what she claimed were deep floodwaters, whereupon two pedestrians walked through the shot, exposing the water to only be a few inches deep. Kosinski declared at the time "O.K., this probably looks a little bad". News reports from the time showed chest-deep water and people using boats. Kosinski explained to The New York Observer that while the shot was originally in the deep water, the crew insisted on moving the boat to the edge of the water, so that they could light and mic it properly. The crew was also concerned for safety, as the water was moving quickly. This was visible in the taped piece that ran with the live element. [5]

In 2009, she won a national Emmy award for live reporting during NBC News' special coverage of the 2008 U.S. presidential election. [6]

In 2010, Kosinski was named a foreign correspondent and moved from NBC's Southeast Bureau to London. [7]

In 2014, she became a White House correspondent for CNN. [8] [9]

NBC News

In 2005, Kosinski worked as a foreign correspondent for NBC News based in London. [4] She covered numerous international events such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the aftermath of the Arab Spring, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, terrorist plots and bombings in Europe, US-Russia relations, [10] as well as the Virginia Tech shooting. [11] [4]

Other

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. [12]

In 2009, Kosinski purchased a $5.6 million, 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m2) home in Coral Gables, Florida. [13]

Education

Kosinski attended St. Charles Borromeo School [14] and graduated from Holy Cross High School as valedictorian. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. [4] Originally in the magazine writing program, she later switched to the broadcasting division. [15]

Personal life

Kosinski was born in Willingboro Township, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Cinnaminson Township, New Jersey. [16] She is one of four children of Jeanette, a chemist, and Robert, a retired biologist who worked for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. While working as a television news photographer and reporter in Charlotte, North Carolina, she 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. [17] As of 2011 she began living in London. [7]

In August 2013, Kosinski announced her engagement to retired investment banker and philanthropist Kimbell Duncan, a widower twelve years her senior. [18] [19] They married on August 9, 2014. [20] The Times of London reported allegations about a 2018 "passionate affair [lasting] at least several months" with the UK's ambassador to the US, which "resulted in impressive scoops for Kosinski." Kosinski denied that the scoops originated with the ambassador, [21] [22] [23] and hired a high profile British lawyer to combat reports of the affair. [24]

Community

Kosinski has volunteered for and supported numerous community organizations. She has sought out and highlighted innovative charitable work around the United States, as a regular contributor to Nightly News' "Making a Difference" series, which has in turn positively impacted those efforts. [25] [26]

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  6. ↑ "30TH ANNUAL NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY® AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED AT NEW YORK CITY GALA". The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. September 21, 2009. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
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  11. ↑ "Virginia Tech remembers". NBC News. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
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  13. ↑ "NBC Reporter Buys Coral Gables Estate". tonischrager.com. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved May 24, 2010.
  14. ↑ "Jeanette Kosinski". St. Charles Borromeo Parish School. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
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  16. ↑ Cusack, Bob. "Answer these questions: CNN's Michelle Kosinski", The Hill , March 12, 2014. Accessed October 31, 2015. "Born in: Willingboro, N.J., a suburb of Philadelphia; Grew up in: Cinnaminson, N.J., yet another suburb of Philadelphia"
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  19. ↑ "NBC News' Michelle Kosinski Engaged to Kimbell Duncan". IMDB. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  20. ↑ "Michelle Kosinski and Kimbell Duncan". The New York Times. August 10, 2014. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  21. ↑ Tony Allen-Mills. "Kim Darroch and Michelle Kosinski: it's like Heartburn, the sequel". The Times . Retrieved October 18, 2020. "a passionate affair [lasting] at least several months" with Michelle Kosinski, 46, a CNN correspondent who is married to an American former investment banker. The US Department of Justice was reported by The Sun to have launched an investigation into a series of leaks that resulted in impressive scoops for Kosinski.
  22. ↑ UK's US ambassador investigated over fears he leaked White House secrets to CNN reporter https://www.foxnews.com/world/uk-us-ambassador-investigated-secrets-cnn-reporter
  23. ↑ Patrick Wintour (October 18, 2020). "Man arrested over leak of Kim Darroch cables criticising Trump". The Guardian . Retrieved May 3, 2021. sensitive information did not come from the former ambassador. Sounds like I had some good sources and did my job
  24. ↑ Cartwright, Lachlan (October 29, 2020). "Former CNN Journo Hires Prince William's Lawyer to Fight Rumors of Affair with U.K. Ambassador". The Daily Beast.
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