PERSON: Michelle Kosinski

Correspondent

Michelle Kosinski is a foreign correspondent for NBC News, based in London. <br> <br> She has covered such world events as the war in Afghanistan, terrorist plots in Europe, international court cases, and the devastating earthquake in Haiti.<br> <br> In 2009, she won a national Emmy award for live reporting during NBC News’ special coverage of the presidential election.<br> <br> Kosinski began work in broadcast journalism in Rockford, Ill., for WIFR while earning her BA and MA from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Leaving WIFR, she moved to Charlotte, N.C., 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.<br> <br> In 2005, Rolling Stone magazine named her “hot reporter” in its annual Hot List.<br> <br> 2010 saw Kosinski named foreign correspondent, moving from NBC’s Southeast Bureau to London.<br> <br> — Wikipedia