Mika Brzezinski

Mika Emilie Leonia Brzezinski ( born May 2, 1967 in New York City ) is an American journalist and television presenter.

Life and work

Mika Brzezinski was born in 1967 as the daughter of Polish-born American politician Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as national security adviser in the U.S. Carter administration from 1977 to 1981, and the sculptor Emilie Anna Benes. Spent her childhood Brzezinski on the grounds of Columbia University, where her father worked as a professor at that time. 1976 the family moved to McLean, Virginia near Washington DC. Their high school years she spent on the Madeira School. 1989 earned a degree in English Brzezinski at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

1990 suggested Brzezinski journalistic career as a staff member in the editorial board of the broadcast of ABC World News This Morning broadcast information a. In 1992 she moved to WTIC - TV in Hartford, Connecticut. In 1995 she took over the moderation of the weekday newscast of the station. In 1993 she married the news reporter James Hoffer, with whom she has two children. 1997 WTIC Brzezinski left to work for the news editors at CBS. There she was employed as a correspondent and as anchor woman of nocturnal info broadcast Up to the minute.

2000 Brzezinski was engaged at the cable news channel MSNBC as host of the afternoon show home page, through which they led together with Gina Gaston and Ashleigh Banfield. In September 2001, she returned as a correspondent for CBS. Immediately after the commencement of this job she witnessed the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, where she reported live from the collapse of the so-called South Tower. In January 2007, Brzezinski returned to MSNBC, where she has since along with Joe Scarborough Morning Joe the show, a broadcast program in the breakfast news program moderated. In addition to this she takes occasional duties as a guest presenter on the other programs in the program of MSNBC as 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Sensation was Brzezinski, as Republican presidential candidate John McCain called it a supporter of his rival candidate Barack Obama in October 2008, and thus their journalistic integrity questioned. Since December 8, 2008 Brzezinski and Scarborough also host a two -hour program in the New York-based City Radio Establishment WABC program.

The " Hilton incident"

Caused a stir Brzezinski 2007, when they persistently refused in an edition of Morning Joe, to read a message about the release from prison of hotel heiress Paris Hilton. It justified this step so that she could find no information value for the audience in this message and that it also the constant media presence Hilton was tired anyway. Following the first explanation of this attitude in conversation with her ​​co- presenters Brzezinski tore the sheet with the message about Hilton; her a little later referred for a reading copy of the same message she hunted through the shredder. While co- presenters and producers of Morning Joe recorded the scene with confusion or irritability, Brzezinski was the public broad recognition, which was reflected in a variety of positive e- mail letters. In addition, the clips were with the scene a while a big hit on the internet.

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