Michelle Kosinski (born May 6, 1974) is an American journalist who is currently a Senior Diplomatic Correspondent covering the State Department for CNN.
She was a foreign correspondent for NBC News based in London (2010–2014); before that she was a correspondent based in Miami (2005–2009).In her career she has travelled to 63 countries, including Afghanistan during the US war, Pakistan after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and Haiti following the earthquake in 2010.
She has covered numerous world events such as the Arab Spring, terrorist attacks and plots in Europe, economic crises in Spain and Greece, the death of Nelson Mandela, Hurricane Katrina, and mass shootings in the United States.
Kosinski covered the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinski and the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi.
Among stories Kosinski has broken are the Obama White House's calling the fight against ISIS a war, details of the Trump administration's talks with North Korea, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson being shamed by the White House, Tillerson's refusal to support Ivanka Trump on a foreign trip, and allegations of misuse of Diplomatic Security under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
While at NBC news she extensively covered the trials of Amanda Knox and Oscar Pistorius, the Virginia Tech tragedy, the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, and the 2008 US presidential election, for which she won an Emmy.
In her years of far-flung travels, she has ventured into jungles, sailed on the Amazon and the Nile, climbed into the burial chamber of the Great Pyramid, viewed the northern lights above the Arctic Circle, ran to safety following a strong aftershock in Haiti, entered smuggling tunnels in Gaza, lived on the bayou during the BP oil spill, attended "gladiator school" in Rome, attempted to learn to surf with a rogue-wave hunter in South Africa, slept in a haunted hotel in Northern England, and drove into rural Mexico to interview "patient one" during the Swine Flu outbreak in Mexico.