Michelle Kosinski

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.

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

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.

Early life and education Kosinski attended St. Charles Borromeo School 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.

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

NBC News In 2005, Kosinski worked as a foreign correspondent for NBC News based in London. as well as the Virginia Tech shooting.

In 2005, while covering New Jersey flooding for NBC, Kosinksi paddled a canoe through what she called deep floodwaters, until two pedestrians walked through the shot, revealing the water to only be a few inches deep. Kosinski admitted on air, "O.K., this probably looks a little bad". News reports from the time showed waist-deep water and people using boats. Kosinski later told The New York Observer that the shot was originally in the deeper water, but the crew moved the boat to the edge of the water, to properly light and mic her, and out of safety concerns over the fast moving current. The move was visible in the taped piece that aired with the live report.

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

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

In 2014, she became a White House correspondent for CNN.

Personal life Kosinski was born in Willingboro Township, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Cinnaminson Township, New Jersey. 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. In 2011, she began living in London. They married on August 9, 2014. 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, and hired a high profile British lawyer to combat reports of the affair.