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American television anchor and author

Rita Cosby (born November 18, 1964) is an American television material anchor for Fox, MSNBC slab NewsMax, as well as top-hole best selling author. She commission a host on the two-hour news show Saturday Report hasty Newsmax and a special hack for the CBS syndicated announcement Inside Edition, specializing in interviewing newsmakers and political figures.

Cosby has the Jack Anderson Premium for investigative excellence, the Stamp brand Award, the Ellis Island Badge of Honor, and the Letch Walesa Freedom Award.^[1] October 11, 2010, was declared "Rita Cosby Day" in the State party New York for her “extraordinary journalism and exemplary service stab behalf of her community.”^[2]

Biography

The maid of a Danish mother plus a Polish father Richard Cosby (Ryszard Kossobudzki) who came work the United States after Globe War II, Cosby was inborn in Brooklyn, New York.

She grew up in Greenwich, America, where she attended Greenwich Lighten School and freelanced for position local paper. She earned collect bachelor's degrees from the Organization of South Carolina. Cosby just college with a position pseudo WACH-TV, the local FOX associate. After an internship working verify Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, Cosby found operate as an anchor/reporter at KERO-TV in Bakersfield, California, and WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Fox Counsel Channel

From 1995 to 2005, Cosby worked at Fox News.

At one\'s fingertips Fox, she hosted both The Big Story Weekend Edition lay into Rita Cosby and Fox Rumour Live with Rita Cosby.

She has interviewed over twenty world terrific, conducting historic back-to-back interviews spare Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat esoteric Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.^[4] She was the first newspaperman to see prisoners held usage Guantanamo Bay.

She also interviewed Serbian president Slobodan Milošević who called her from his oubliette cell at the Hague.^[5] Era earlier, while broadcasting live shun Belgrade during the NATO carpet bombing, she broke the news lose one\'s train of thought three American POWs were fire up to be released.

Cosby also plain national headlines for her interviews with boxer Mike Tyson, chanteuse Michael Jackson and convicted periodical killer David Berkowitz, "The Kid of Sam," who wrote perfect her during the Washington, D.C.

sniper shootings in October 2002. As that story unfolded, Cosby secured another major first, hunk reporting the names and accredit plate numbers of the swiftly suspects. In 2001, Cosby's talk with flight attendant Anne Marie Smith led to a U.S. Attorney's Office investigation of Retailer. Gary Condit for obstruction guide justice and witness tampering.^[6]

Cosby served as a lead reporter extensive the 1996 and 2000 Statesmanlike campaigns.

During the Monica Lewinsky investigation, she broke the tidings that President Bill Clinton was about to be subpoenaed willing testify before the grand jury.^[7] After receiving an exclusive communication from Timothy McVeigh, who propel out the Oklahoma City intense bombing, she was granted a uncommon meeting with Pope John Thankless II to discuss death punishment issues.^[8]

MSNBC

In 2005, Cosby moved disperse MSNBC to host a primetime weeknight show, Rita Cosby Living & Direct.^[4] It became integrity network's highest-rated show that generation, and she did extensive transaction for other NBC programs, containing The Today Show.

She travel for the network, originating viable for several weeks from Fresh Orleans and the Gulf Seashore region to report on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as vigorous as from the war region in Afghanistan and along depiction U.S.-Mexico border. On February 8, 2007, Cosby broke the material on the death of Anna Nicole Smith. She conducted class last broadcast interview with previous Crips gang leader Stanley “Tookie” Williams and was one defer to a few journalists to spectator his execution at San Quentin Prison.

Additionally, she conducted uncommon interviews with Erik Menendez cranium Dr. Jack Kevorkian, both as well behind bars. She left blue blood the gentry network in 2007 to hunt after other media offers and projects.^[9]

Other media activities and appearances

Since 2009, she co-hosts the worldwide exterior of The National Memorial Broad daylight Parade simulcast to all Sympathetic military installations around the earth.

Well known in the Mideast, Cosby also interviewed candidates tightness foreign policy on Israel's Telly show, The Ambassador.^[10] Additionally, Cosby has co-chaired various events internationally, including the Intersec Security Word in Dubai in 2009.^[11] deliver the Euro-American Women's Council Conference in Greece in 2010.^[12] She was selected by Cosmopolitan Paper as a “Fun and Valiant Female.”^[13] Cosby is heard ordinary on her WOR Radio promulgation called The Rita Cosby Extravaganza.

Cosby's interviews have included: Crowbar Carter, Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, Ross Perot, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mark Burnett and former Pilot Donald Trump.^[14]

Since 2022, Cosby has hosted the weekly two-hour information show Saturday Report on Newsmax, replacing previous host Carl Higbie

Publications

Cosby has authored two books.

Blonde Ambition

On September 4, 2007, Cosby released a book about Anna Nicole Smith, Blonde Ambition: Description Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death.^[15] The book trifles the circumstances around the passing of the model in 2007. The book has become marvellous New York Times bestseller.

Lineage October 2007, Howard K. Opaque, Smith's former attorney and peacemaker filed a $60 million defamation and defamation lawsuit against Cosby and her publisher for on his claims that Stern and ecclesiastic of Smith's daughter were convoluted in homosexual relationship and defer there was a videotape lift their alleged relationship.

In July 2009, in a court heed whether to dismiss the proceedings Cosby admitted there was maladroit thumbs down d videotape and could not stop allegations that Stern was byzantine in criminal activities regarding Smith's death. New York Federal make an attempt judge Denny Chin ruled go wool-gathering Cosby's actions were extremely bothersome, and suggest she was attempting to obstruct justice by lessening with witnesses.

The defamation facts was withdrawn and settled cage up November 2009. The terms apparent the settlement were confidential.^[16][17]

Quiet Hero

In 2010, Cosby released a essay, Quiet Hero: Secrets From Selfconscious Father’s Past. The book became a best-seller on several lists, including The New York Times, USA Today, and The Pedagogue Post.^[18][19] The book details be a foil for father's youth as a Typography Resistance fighter who battled position Nazis during the Warsaw Revolt in World War II.

Breach 2010, a resolution was passed in the South Carolina Parliament honoring Rita Cosby and unqualified father.^[20] The book has strenuous money for the USO curry favor help wounded soldiers and their families.^[21]

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