Hoda Kotb is co-anchor of the fourth hour of NBC’s morning program, TODAY, alongside Kathie Lee Gifford. Kotb has also been a Dateline NBC correspondent since April 1998. She is author of the New York Times Bestselling book, Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer and Kathie Lee.
Since Gifford and Kotb teamed up, the fourth hour of TODAY has been hailed as “appointment television” by Entertainment Weekly and “TODAY’s happy hour” by USA Today. In 2010, the program received a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Morning Program.
Kotb has covered a wide variety of domestic and international stories across all NBC News platforms as well as numerous human-interest stories and features. She covered the news surrounding Hurricane Katrina in-depth, a personal story to her as a former resident of New Orleans. 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 also co-anchored an MSNBC special on race, “Shades of Hope…Shadows of Hate,” which was reported from Birmingham, Alabama.
Kotb is a breast cancer survivor and has been part of several initiatives to raise awareness about the disease. Diagnosed in March 2007, she shared her story on TODAY in October 2007.
Kotb has received numerous awards throughout her career including the 2008 Gracie Award for Individual Achievement, the 2008 Alfred I. duPont –Columbia University award and the prestigious Peabody in 2006 for her Dateline NBC report, “The Education of Ms. Groves.” The four-time Emmy nominee also won the 2004 Headliner Award, the 2003 Gracie Award and the 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award.
Kotb graduated from Virginia Tech University with a Bachelor of Arts in broadcast journalism. She resides in New York City.
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