Rita Cosby
Powerful. Opinionated. Passionate.
Rita Cosby is an Emmy award-winning television news anchor, and a best selling author. A renowned Host and Senior Correspondent of FOX News Channel for a decade, she is currently a Special Correspondent for the top-rated CBS syndicated news magazine, Inside Edition, specializing in interviewing newsmakers and key political figures. A feisty and fearless Journalist, she provides listeners with strong, smart talk… not mere opinions.
RITA COSBY is a renowned Emmy® winning TV host, veteran correspondent and bestselling author who anchored highly rated prime-time shows on FOX News Channel and MSNBC. She is currently a special correspondent for the top-rated CBS syndicated newsmagazine Inside Edition and frequently guest hosts some of the largest TV and radio shows in the country. She has been interviewed or profiled by hundreds of media outlets across America and overseas.
Throughout her illustrious TV career, Rita has secured some of the biggest interviews, including exclusives with more than twenty world leaders, conducting historic back-to-back interviews with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Rita also was granted a rare meeting with Pope John Paul II to discuss death penalty issues after receiving an exclusive letter from Timothy McVeigh explaining why he carried out the Oklahoma City Bombing. The first reporter to see prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay and witness an actual interrogation, she also interviewed Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic who called her from his prison cell at the Hague where he stood trial for war crimes. During Hurricane Katrina, she provided extensive, live coverage, hosting shows from New Orleans, revealing the widespread devastation, and soon after reported live from the war zone in Afghanistan and then along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Her first book, Blonde Ambition, was a New York Times bestseller and called “The most talked about book in America” by Extra. Her second book, Quiet Hero: Secrets From My Father’s Past, is enjoying tremendous success, already hitting several bestseller lists which include: The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today. It details her recent discovery about her estranged father, a Nazi prisoner of war, saved by American troops.
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- The Steve Malzberg Show- August 31, 2011- Hour 3
Debra Burlingame, whose brother was the pilot of the plane that crashed into The Pentagon on 9/11, discusses why the Gitmo detainees have not yet been tried.
- The Steve Malzberg Show- August 31, 2011- Hour 2
NY Times best selling author Ronald Kessler joins Rita Cosby to discuss why the FBI is worried about another terrorist attack on the 10th anniversary of 9-11.
- The Steve Malzberg Show- August 31, 2011- Hour 1
The World Congress on Disabilities is having a summit here in NY at the end of September; Rita Cosby speaks with managing director Bill Schwaninger all about it.
