Since 2009, she co-hosts the worldwide broadcast of The National Memorial Day Parade simulcast to all US military installations around the globe. She left the network in 2007 to pursue other media offers and projects. Additionally, she conducted rare interviews with Erik Menendez and Dr. She conducted the last broadcast interview with former Crips gang leader Stanley “Tookie” Williams and was one of a few journalists to witness his execution at San Quentin Prison.
On February 8, 2007, Cosby broke the news on the death of Anna Nicole Smith. She traveled for the network, originating live for several weeks from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region to report on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as from the war zone in Afghanistan and along the U.S.-Mexico border. It became the network's highest-rated show that year, and she did extensive reports for other NBC programs, including The Today Show. In 2005, Cosby moved to MSNBC to host a primetime weeknight show, Rita Cosby Live & Direct. After receiving an exclusive letter from Timothy McVeigh, who carried out the Oklahoma City bombing, she was granted a rare meeting with Pope John Paul II to discuss death penalty issues.
During the Monica Lewinsky investigation, she broke the news that President Bill Clinton was about to be subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury. Ĭosby served as a lead reporter during the 19 Presidential campaigns. Gary Condit for obstruction of justice and witness tampering. In 2001, Cosby's interview with flight attendant Anne Marie Smith led to a U.S.
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As that story unfolded, Cosby secured another major first, by reporting the names and license plate numbers of the sniper suspects.
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Ĭosby also made national headlines for her interviews with boxer Mike Tyson, singer Michael Jackson and convicted serial killer David Berkowitz, "The Son of Sam," who wrote to her during the Washington, D.C. Years earlier, while broadcasting live from Belgrade during the NATO bombing, she broke the news that three American POWs were going to be released. She also interviewed Serbian president Slobodan Milošević who called her from his prison cell at the Hague. She was the first reporter to see prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. She has interviewed over twenty world leaders, conducting historic back-to-back interviews with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. At Fox, she hosted both The Big Story Weekend Edition with Rita Cosby and Fox News Live with Rita Cosby. Fox News Channelįrom 1995 to 2005, Cosby worked at Fox News. After an internship working for Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, Cosby found work as an anchor/reporter at KERO-TV in Bakersfield, California, and WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina. Cosby balanced college with a position at WACH-TV, the local FOX affiliate. She earned her bachelor's degrees from the University of South Carolina. She grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, where she attended Greenwich High School and freelanced for the local paper.
The daughter of a Danish mother and a Polish father Richard Cosby (Ryszard Kossobudzki) who came to the United States after World War II, Cosby was born in Brooklyn, New York. 1.3 Other media activities and appearances.
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