Serena Altschul

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Serena Altschul : biography

October 13, 1970 –

Serena Altschul (born October 13, 1970) is an American broadcast journalist, well known for her work at MTV News.

Cameos as herself

She played herself on Jay-Z’s 1999 song, "Dope Man". She also appeared as herself in the films Queen of the Damned and Josie and the Pussycats.

Awards

  • Edward R. Murrow Award – Sports Reporting 2007

Career

Altschul attended Scripps CollegeCBS Sunday Morning: "" for a couple of years, studying English literature, but did not graduate. While in college, she was the associate producer of 1993’s The Last Party, a political documentary.

She spent two years at Channel One News, a channel seen nationwide in high schools, as an anchor/reporter.Channel One Network: "" In 1995 she landed a job at MTV and in January 1996 she started working for MTV News. She also hosted shows such as MTV News: UNfiltered, Breaking it Down and hosted and produced True Life.CBS Sunday Morning:

From 2002 to 2003 Altschul worked at CNN. She hosted and produced a CNN special on the return of PCP. She continued working at MTV News while at CNN. On December 23, 2003, she was named a CBS News contributing correspondent. She now (2013) appears on CBS Sunday Morning.

Background

She was born in New York City, and is the daughter of author and botanist Siri von Reis and Arthur Altschul, a former partner at Goldman Sachs. Her mother is of half-Finnish and half-Swedish ancestry February 2, 2004 and her father is of Jewish ancestry. When her parents divorced, 2-year-old Serena and her two siblings were raised by their mother.

Her half-brother is mathematician Stephen Altschul.