Michelle Kosinski
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Michelle Kosinski (b. 1974 in Cinnaminson, New Jersey) is a correspondent for NBC News.
She 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 and founded the Piedmont Bureau. In 2001, she was voted the Best Reporter in Charlotte. In Fall of 2001, she left WSOC for WTVJ in Miami, Florida. She is a 2003 Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards Craft Winner for reporting on Haitian immigrants.[1] She was also named Woman of the Year in 2005 by Women in Communications of South Florida.
[edit] Stories covered
- Hurricane Katrina's aftermath
- Immigration demonstrations
- Evacuation of Americans from Cyprus, & Lebanon
- 2005 New York City transit strike
- KGB spy murder in London
- Serial murders in England countryside
[edit] Incidents
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.[2]
On October 14, 2005, Kosinski found herself in another controversy while on assignment for The Today Show in Wayne, New Jersey, covering the Northeast floods, and reporting from a canoe. Although other people in the area were observed using boats to get around, she was accused by some bloggers of exaggerating the severity of the flooding at her location after two men, both wearing chest waders, were seen casually walking, demonstrating that the water she was in was no more than 6 to 8 inches deep, or just slightly above the men's ankles. [3]
