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

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and CBS.

Early life and education

Altschul was born in

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, a daughter of author and botanist Siri von Reis and Arthur Altschul, a member of the Lehman banking family. Her mother is of half- Finnish and half-

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ancestry and her father is of

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ancestry. After her parents divorced, two-year-old Serena and two siblings were raised by their mother. Altschul has four siblings. Her brother, Arthur Goodhart Altschul Jr., was married to journalist Rula Jebreal and her sister, Emily Altschul, is married to former journalist and

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Deputy Commissioner John Miller. She also has two half-brothers, Charles Altschul and mathematician Stephen Altschul from her father's previous marriage and a step-brother, Whitney Sudler-Smith, from her father's later marriage to reality television series personality Patricia Dey. Altschul attended

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''CBS Sunday Morning'':
Serena Altschul
for a few years, studying

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, but did not graduate. In 1993, while still in college, she was the associate producer of '' The Last Party'', a political documentary.

Career

After school, she worked for two years at

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, a channel seen nationwide in high schools, as an

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. In 1987 she landed a job at MTV and in January 1996 she started working for ''

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December 15, 2013 She also hosted shows such as ''MTV News: UNfiltered'', ''Breaking it Down'' and hosted and produced '' True Life''. From 2002 to 2003 Altschul worked at CNN. She hosted and produced a CNN special on the return of PCP. She continued working at

while at CNN. On December 23, 2003, she was named a CBS News contributing correspondent. Since 2013 she has appeared on ''

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''. 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

References

External links

*
Charlie Rose interview
February 8, 2000
CBS News profile for AltschulSerena Altschul reports on Wikipedia
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