Michelle Kosinski Biography

Michelle Kosinski is a foreign correspondent for NBC News, based in London.

She has covered such world events as the war in Afghanistan, terrorist plots in Europe, international court cases, and the devastating earthquake in Haiti.

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

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.

In 2005, Rolling Stone magazine named her "hot reporter" in its annual Hot List.

2010 saw Kosinski named foreign correspondent, moving from NBC's Southeast Bureau to London.

Stories covered

• Hurricane Katrina aftermath
• Evacuation of Americans from Cyprus and Lebanon
• 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 Bhutto
• Presidential election 2008
• Swine flu in Mexico
• 2010 Haiti earthquake
• 2010 Chile earthquake
• Deepwater Horizon oil spill
• 2010 Chile case against Joran Van der Sloot
• British royal wedding
• Berlusconi trial
• European E-coli outbreak, Germany
• 2011 London Riots
• Chernobyl Lasting Effects, 2011
• Arab Spring, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Gaza
• American hikers released from Iran
• Costa Concordia disaster, Italy
• DSK Scandal, Paris
• Afghanistan, 2012
• London Olympics

Other

In 2005, Kosinski made Rolling Stone'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, home in Coral Gables, Florida.

Personal life

Kosinski was born in Willingboro Township, New Jersey in the early 1970s and grew up in Cinnaminson Township, New Jersey, a quiet suburb of Philadelphia. 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.

Michelle attended St. Charles Borromeo school, graduating with the top honors of her class, then was 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.

she is living in London.

In August 2013 Michelle announced she was engaged to 48 year old retired investment banker Kimbell Duncan.

Community

For several years, Kosinski has served on the executive host committee for Amigos for Kids, a charitable organization based in Miami. 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.