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Michelle Kosinski is a White House correspondent for CNN . She was a foreign correspondent for NBC News based in London from 2010–2014, before that she was a correspondent based in Atlanta from 2005–2009.
She has covered such world events as the war in Afghanistan, terrorist plots in Europe, international court cases, and the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
In 2009, she won a national Emmy award for live reporting during NBC News' special coverage of the presidential election.
Kosinski 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-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.
Kosinski became best known in 2005 for paddling a canoe in water less than two feet deep during an NBC Today Show report about flooding in New Jersey. Two men were seen walking in front of her canoe during the report. This prompted hosts Matt Lauer and Katie Couric to make fun of Kosinski on air. The humorous clip soon spread throughout the internet and was featured on shows such as The Daily Show. Kosinski blamed her producers for the gaffe.
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