Alison Kosik (born April 28, 1971) is an American

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and was a

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business correspondent who covered the

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Biography

Kosik was born in

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, the daughter of Brenda (née Seinfeld) and Gilbert Kosik. She attended

Nova High School Nova High School is a public high school located in Davie, Florida and is part of the Broward County Public Schools district. It is one of four schools that comprise the Nova Center for Applied Research and Professional Development, the others ...

and graduated with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science from American University in

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She began her career in Corpus Christi, Texas working as a reporter for

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and

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and then moved to

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where she worked as a reporter and fill-in anchor for WPEC-TV/

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. She then moved to

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where she worked first as a business correspondent for EnergyNewsLive.com covering the energy sector; then as a reporter and anchor for the

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; and then as a reporter for

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. She then accepted a position as an investigative reporter at

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in New York City. She presently works as a business correspondent for

covering the

. During a wave of layoffs at the end of 2022, it was announced that Kosik would be among those leaving CNN. Kosik received a Scripps Howard New Media Fellowship from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 2001, and in 1999 received a 1999 Florida AP Award for Best Spot News. She was a 1993 Fellow of the International Radio and Television Society.

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