Rita Cosby Biography
Rita Cosby is a best-selling author, radio host, and television news anchor and correspondent. She currently hosts the two-hour Newsmax news show Saturday Report and serves as a special correspondent for the CBS syndicated show Inside Edition.
How old is Rita Cosby?- Age
Rita is 59 years old as of November 2023. She was born on 18 November 1964, in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America.
Rita Cosby Education
where she went to Greenwich High School and worked as a freelance writer for the local newspaper. She graduated with honors from the University of South Carolina.
Rita Cosby Family
Cosby was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, The daughter of a Danish mother and a Polish father Richard Cosby.
Is Rita Cosby Married?- Husband
She has not gone public with her relationship. However, It is not known whether she is married, engaged, divorced, or single.
Rita Cosby Career
He currently hosts the two-hour Newsmax news show Saturday Report and is a special correspondent for the CBS syndicated program Inside Edition, where he interviews newsmakers and political figures. Cosby has three Emmy Awards, the Jack Anderson Award for investigative excellence, the Matrix Award, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, and the Lech Walesa Freedom Award to his name. In the state of New York, October 11, 2010, was designated as “Rita Cosby Day” in recognition of her “extraordinary journalism and exemplary service on behalf of her community.” Cosby worked at Fox News from 1995 to 2005. She hosted The Big Story Weekend Edition with Rita Cosby and Fox News Live with Rita Cosby for Fox.
She has interviewed over twenty world leaders, including Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in historic back-to-back interviews. She was the first journalist to visit prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. She also spoke with Serbian President Slobodan Miloevi, who called her from his Hague prison cell. Years before, while broadcasting live from Belgrade during the NATO bombing, she announced the release of three American POWs. Cosby also made national headlines for her interviews with boxer Mike Tyson, singer Michael Jackson, and convicted serial killer David Berkowitz, dubbed “The Son of Sam,” who wrote to her during the October 2002 sniper attacks in Washington, D.C. As the story progressed.
Cosby achieved yet another major first by reporting the sniper suspects’ names and license plate numbers. In 2001, Cosby’s interview with flight attendant Anne Marie Smith sparked an investigation by the US Attorney’s Office into Rep. Gary Condit for obstruction of justice and witness tampering. During the 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns, Cosby was the lead reporter. She broke the news that President Bill Clinton was about to be subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury during the Monica Lewinsky investigation. After receiving an exclusive letter from Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, she was granted a rare meeting with Pope John Paul II to discuss death penalty issues.
Cosby joined MSNBC in 2005 to host Rita Cosby Live & Direct, a primetime weeknight show. It was the network’s highest-rated show that year, and she contributed extensively to other NBC shows, including The Today Show. She traveled for the network, reporting live for several weeks from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as from Afghanistan and the US-Mexico border. Cosby announced Anna Nicole Smith’s death on February 8, 2007. She was one of a few journalists present at the execution of former Crips gang leader Stanley “Tookie” Williams at San Quentin Prison.
She has co-hosted the worldwide broadcast of The National Memorial Day Parade, which is simulcast to all US military installations around the world, since 2009. Cosby, who is well-known in the Middle East, also interviewed candidates for Israel’s TV show The Ambassador about foreign policy.[10] Cosby has also co-chaired a number of international events, including the Intersec Security Conference in Dubai in 2009. as well as the 2010 Euro-American Women’s Council Forum in Greece. Cosmopolitan Magazine named her a “Fun and Fearless Female.” Cosby frequently fills in for Nancy Grace on her HLN show, and is heard daily on her WOR Radio show, The Rita Cosby Show. Cosby has hosted the weekly two-hour news show Saturday Report on Newsmax since 2022, succeeding previous host Carl Higbie.
Rita Cosby Books
- Blonde Ambition
- Quiet Hero
Rita Cosby Net Worth
Rita has an estimated net worth of 3 million dollars.