Monica Novotny

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Monica Novotny joined MSNBC after four years working at the Channel One network as a reporter and anchor, where her work was seen daily by some 8 million teenagers and their teachers. Novotny joined MSNBC as an Internet reporter for HomePage. She is now a reporter and anchor with the network.

She has covered major stories both in the U.S. and internationally, including the 1999 earthquake in Turkey, the conflict in Kosovo, the funeral of King Hussein of Jordan and the explosion of a deadly volcano on the island of Montserrat.

In the U.S., she reported on President Clinton’s impeachment, the risks of a chemical weapons incinerator in Utah, Election Night 1996 in Little Rock and the Clinton-Dole debate. Prior to joining Channel One, she was an intern with KNBC-TV.

Novotny won a Gracie Award in 2000 for a series of reports chronicling the women’s suffrage movement through six generations of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s family. She won a Golden Apple in 1998 for “The Long Road to Freedom,” and a Telly Award in 1996 for a report on “Life on Mars.”

In 2003 she became a correspondent for MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. While at MSNBC she has served as anchor for MSNBC Live, a substitute host for The Most with Alison Stewart, First Look, and Early Today.

Novotny graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA and was valedictorian.

On the November 21, 2006 edition of Countdown it was announced that she had given birth to a son with her husband Michael Foley, an investment banker whom she wed in May of 2004. A name was not given.[1][2]. She returned from her leave on April 23, 2007 [3].