Rita Cosby Biography
Rita Cosby is a best-selling author, radio host, and television news anchor and correspondent. She is currently working as a special correspondent for the CBS-syndicated program Inside Edition, where she focuses on conducting interviews with political and newsmakers. Cosby has been honored with the Lech Walesa Freedom Award, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, the Matrix Award, the Jack Anderson Award for investigative excellence, and three Emmy Awards.
Rita Cosby Age
She is 58 years old as of early 2023. She was born on 18 November 1964 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. She celebrates her birthday on 18 November.
Rita Cosby Family
She is the daughter of a Danish mother and a Clean dad Richard Cosby (Ryszard Kossobudzki) who came to the US after The Second Great War, Cosby was brought into the world in Brooklyn, New York.
Rita Cosby Education
She worked as a freelancer for the local paper while attending Greenwich High School. She graduated from the University of South Carolina with a bachelor’s degree. Cosby worked at the local FOX affiliate, WACH-TV, while balancing college. Cosby found work as an anchor and reporter at KERO-TV in Bakersfield, California, and WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina, following an internship with Dan Rather on CBS Evening News.
Rita Cosby Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Rita Cosby Fox News
Cosby worked at Fox News from 1995 to 2005. She hosted Fox News Live with Rita Cosby and The Big Story Weekend Edition with Rita Cosby at Fox. She has conducted historic interviews with over twenty world leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. She was the first reporter to see Guantanamo Bay prisoners. She also spoke with Slobodan Miloevi, the president of Serbia, who called her from his Hague prison cell. She announced the release of three American POWs years earlier, broadcasting live from Belgrade during the NATO bombing.
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Cosby’s interviews with boxer Mike Tyson, singer Michael Jackson, and convicted serial killer David Berkowitz, also known as “The Son of Sam,” who wrote to her during the October 2002 sniper shootings in Washington, D.C., also made national headlines. Cosby broke another major first by revealing the sniper suspects’ names and license plate numbers as that story developed. In 2001, Cosby’s meeting with airline steward Anne Marie Smith prompted a U.S. Lawyer’s Office examination of Rep. Gary Condit for deterrent of equity and witness altering.
During the campaigns for president in 1996 and 2000, Cosby was the primary reporter. She broke the news that President Bill Clinton was about to be subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury during the Monica Lewinsky investigation. She was granted a rare meeting with Pope John Paul II to discuss death penalty issues after receiving an exclusive letter from Oklahoma City bombing mastermind Timothy McVeigh.
Rita Cosby MSNBC
Cosby moved to MSNBC in 2005 to host Rita Cosby Live & Direct, a primetime weeknight show. She did extensive reporting for other NBC shows, including The Today Show, and that year, it was the network’s highest-rated show. She traveled for the network, reporting live for a number of weeks from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast to cover Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as from Afghanistan’s war zone and the border between the United States and Mexico. Cosby announced Anna Nicole Smith’s death on February 8, 2007. She was one of the few journalists who witnessed Stanley “Tookie” Williams’s execution at San Quentin Prison and conducted the final broadcast interview with him. She also conducted rare interviews with Dr. Jack Kevorkian and Erik Menendez, both of whom were also in prison. In 2007, she left the network to look into other media opportunities and projects.
Rita Cosby Inside Edition
She is focusing her work at the syndicated program Inside Edition on interviewing prominent journalists and political figures. CBS Media Ventures distributes the American newsmagazine program Inside Edition through first-run syndication. It is the longest-running syndicated newsmagazine program that is not solely focused on hard news, having premiered on January 9, 1989. Even though the latter is included, the remainder of each day’s edition primarily contains informational articles, entertainment news and gossip, scandals, true-crime stories, and lifestyle articles.
Rita Cosby Book
- Blonde Ambition
- Quiet Hero