Michelle Kosinski Biography
Michelle Kosinski is a journalist, host, and public speaker from the United States. Her most recent podcast, “The Perfect Scam,” was written and hosted by her. Until 2019, she worked for CNN as a Senior Diplomatic Correspondent and White House Correspondent. She worked as a foreign correspondent for NBC News in London before moving to Miami to work as a correspondent.
How old is Michelle Kosinski? – Age
She is 47 years old as of 6 May 2021. She was born in 1974 in Willingboro, New Jersey, United States.
Michelle Kosinski Family
Kosinski grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Cinnaminson Township, New Jersey. She is one of the four children born to Jeanette, a chemist, and Robert, a retired biologist who worked for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Michelle Kosinski Wife
Kosinski announced her engagement to Kimbell Duncan, a retired investment banker, and philanthropist, in August 2013. On August 9, 2014, they tied the knot. According to the New York Times, Kosinski had a “passionate affair with an ambassador” in 2018 that “resulted in impressive scoops for Kosinski.” Kosinski denied that the scoops came from the ambassador and hired Prince William’s lawyer to fight the allegations.
Michelle Kosinski Net Worth
Kosinski has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Michelle Kosinski Education
Kosinski went to St. Charles Borromeo School and graduated as valedictorian from Holy Cross High School. She graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in journalism. She began her career in the magazine writing program before transferring to the broadcasting division.
Michelle Kosinski Flooding
While covering flooding in New Jersey in 2005, Kosinski was involved in the video news scene. When two pedestrians walked through the shot, exposing the water to be only a few inches deep, Kosinski declared, “O.K., this probably looks a little bad.”
Michelle Kosinski Career
While earning her BA and MA from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Kosinski began working in broadcast journalism for WIFR in Rockford, Illinois. She left WIFR to work at WSOC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she founded the Piedmont Bureau. Readers of Charlotte’s arts and entertainment magazine voted her the Best Reporter in Charlotte in 2001. She left WSOC-TV for WTVJ in Miami in the fall of 2001. She won a Suncoast Regional Emmy Award for reporting on Haitian immigrants in 2003, and Women in Communications of South Florida named her Woman of the Year in 2005.
Kosinski has covered events around the world such as the Afghan War, European terrorist plots, international court cases, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. She won a national Emmy for live reporting during NBC News’ special coverage of the 2008 presidential election in the United States in 2009.
In 2010, Kosinski was promoted to foreign correspondent and relocated to London from NBC’s Southeast Bureau. She joined CNN as a White House correspondent in 2014. In 2005, Kosinski was based in London as a foreign correspondent for NBC News. She covered a variety of international events, including the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Arab Spring aftermath, Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, terrorist plots and bombings in Europe, US-Russia relations, and the Virginia Tech shooting.