Mika Brzezinski
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Mika Brzezinski (born May 2, 1967) is a freelance anchor for MSNBC. Previously she was a CBS News Anchor & Correspondent.
[edit] Early life & education
Brzezinski was born in New York City, the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski and his sculptress wife. Her father was then teaching at Columbia University, but the family moved to McLean, Virginia near Washington, D.C. in 1976, when Zbigniew was appointed United States National Security Advisor under newly-elected President Jimmy Carter.
Brzezinski attended The Madeira School during her high-school years and Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she majored in English.
[edit] Media career
Brzezinski began her journalism career as an assistant at ABC's World News This Morning in 1990. A year later, she moved to Tribune-owned FOX-affiliate WTIC-TV in Hartford, Connecticut. There, she progressed from assignment and features editor to general assignments reporter. In 1992, she joined CBS affiliate WFSB-TV and quickly progressed through the ranks to become its primary anchor in 1995. In 1997, she left that role to join CBS News, where she served as a correspondent and Japanese enthusiast and as anchor for the Up to the Minute segment.
In 2000, Brzezinski began a short hiatus from CBS, during which she worked for rival MSNBC on the weekday afternoon show HomePage with co-anchors Gina Gaston and Ashleigh Banfield. She returned to CBS as a correspondent in September 2001, which thrust her into the limelight as a principal "Ground Zero" reporter for the September 11, 2001 attacks. Brzezinski was broadcasting live from the scene when the south tower collapsed.
Her last position at CBS, Mika Brzezinski served as a CBS News correspondent, substitute anchor, and segment anchor for breaking news segments and routine updates.
On January 26th, 2007 Mika was back, freelancing, on MSNBC doing the evening "Up To The Minute." news updates. Since then Mika has still been anchoring primetime newsbreaks during the week and has been filling in on the weekends as well as occasionally anchoring the 3pm hour of MSNBC Live during the week.
On March 20, 2007, Mika anchored "Early Today" on NBC. In the past three months NBC Universal has been expanding her role with NBC News and MSNBC.
