Contessa Brewer

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Contessa Brewer

Contessa Brewer, November 16, 2007. Photo by Christopher Peterson
Born March 16, 1974
Occupation News Anchor
Contessa Brewer in action at the site of the collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge.
Contessa Brewer in action at the site of the collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge.

Contessa Brewer, born 16 March 1974, is a news anchor for MSNBC. She joined MSNBC in September of 2003 after working for WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a weekend anchor and general assignment reporter. She has also worked for KMIR-TV in Palm Springs, California from 1997 to 1999, and KRNV-TV in Reno, Nevada.[1] KMIR and WTMJ are both owned by Journal Communications.

Brewer, in the spring of 2005, served briefly as a news reader on the popular "Imus in the Morning" radio show, which was syndicated nationally. Her tenure was brief; she became embroiled in a public feud with Don Imus after the New York Post published a gossip item[2] in which she was allegedly overheard disparaging the radio personality. Among several other insults, Imus had called Brewer "fat" on air.[3]

She graduated Magna Cum Laude from S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Contessa Brewer - Meet the faces of MSNBC. MSNBC (February 22, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-04-12.
  2. ^ Don Imus Berates Contessa Brewer. Outside the Beltway (May 1, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-04-12.
  3. ^ Don Imus Berates Contessa Brewer. Outside the Beltway (May 1, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-04-12.
  4. ^ Contessa Brewer - Meet the faces of MSNBC. MSNBC (February 22, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-04-12.
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NAME Brewer, Contessa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Newsperson
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1974
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