Hoda Kotb

Speaker Hoda Kotb was named co-anchor of the fourth hour of The Today Show in August 2007. She has also been a Dateline NBC correspondent since April 1998 and the host of the weekly syndicated series Your Total Health since September 2004.

In her nine years at NBC, Kotb has covered a wide variety of domestic and international stories. Most recently, she covered the aftermath and one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The story was very personal to Kotb who lived in New Orleans for six years. In addition, she has reported on the war in Iraq, the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and the war on terror in Afghanistan. Kotb conducted an exclusive interview with Aung San Suu Kyi, an internationally recognized leader of Burma, marking the first time in 11 years that Suu Kyi was interviewed by an American television network.

Kotb traveled to Southeast Asia to cover the devastating effects of the 2004 Tsunami, and she traveled to war-torn Burma, led secretly by rebel soldiers, to report the complete story on 12-year-old twin warriors who were said to have magical powers. Kotb also co-anchored an MSNBC special on race, “Shades of Hope…Shadows of Hate,” which was reported from Birmingham, AL, at the former site of a Klan bombing.

Kotb has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Peabody in 2006 for her Dateline NBC report “The Education of Ms. Groves.” The three-time Emmy nominee also won the 2004 Headliner Award, 2003 Gracie Award, and the 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award.

Previously, Kotb worked at WWL-TV, the CBS affiliate in New Orleans, LA, where she served as an anchor and reporter. She was a weekend anchor and reporter for WINK-TV in Fort Myers, FL. Prior to that, Kotb was a morning anchor and general assignment reporter for WQAD-TV, the ABC affiliate in Moline, IL, and an anchor for WXVT-TV, the CBS affiliate in Mississippi. Kotb began her broadcast career with CBS News as a news assistant in Cairo, Egypt.