Contessa Brewer

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Contessa Brewer is a news anchor for MSNBC. She joined MSNBC in September of 2003 after working for WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a weekend anchor and general assignment reporter. She has also worked for KMIR in Palm Springs, California (which, like, WTMJ is owned by Journal Communications), and KRNV in Reno, Nevada.

Brewer, in the spring of 2005, served briefly as a news reader on the popular "Imus in the Morning" radio show that is broadcast out of Secaucus, New Jersey, syndicated nationally, and broadcast on MSNBC; but her tenure was brief, and she became embroiled in a public feud with Don Imus after the New York Post published a gossip item in which she was overheard disparaging the radio personality. Among several insults, Imus had called Brewer "fat" on his radio show, despite the fact that she is of average weight and height.

She graduated Magna Cum Laude from S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.