Mika Brzezinski is the co-host of MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" (weekdays 6 a.m.- 9 a.m. ET) and co-host of Citadel Media's syndicated radio show "The Joe Scarborough Show.” She is also the author of the forthcoming book, "All Things At Once", published by Weinstein Books and on shelves January of 2010.

Prior to joining MSNBC in January 2007, Brzezinski was an anchor of the “CBS Evening News Weekend Edition” and a CBS News correspondent who frequently contributed to “CBS Sunday Morning” and “60 Minutes.” Brzezinski joined CBS News in 1997 as the anchor of “CBS News Up To The Minute,” but took a short hiatus in 2000 to co-host MSNBC’s weekday afternoon program “Homepage.” In September 2001, she returned to CBS to become their principal “Ground Zero” reporter for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Brzezinski began her journalism career in 1991 in Hartford, Connecticut, as a general assignment reporter at WTIC. A year later she joined WFSB, also in Hartford, and quickly became the weekday morning anchor.

A native of New York City, Brzezinski is the daughter of Foreign Policy Expert and Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. She attended Williams College and received a degree in English. Brzezinski lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

Blog Entries by Mika Brzezinski

Sometimes You Have To Take A Step Back

7 Comments | Posted January 4, 2010 | 04:46 PM (EST)


The following is an excerpt from All Things At Once by Mika Brzezinski (published by Weinstein Books, January 5, 2010).

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods. Mostly, what I didn't have...

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Losing Your Job and Learning What You're Made Of

65 Comments | Posted December 7, 2009 | 04:19 PM (EST)


Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it.

When you walk out the door, its over. No cell phone. No email address. Nothing.

Stripped of your link to the...

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Work-Life Balance? Puh-leaase!

58 Comments | Posted November 30, 2009 | 05:26 PM (EST)


In my job, as co-host of Morning Joe on MSNBC and The Joe Scarborough Show on WABC radio, there are usually several days a week that are endless.

Absolutely endless.

This is not a complaint. I love the job. I am extremely lucky to have a job and thank God...

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Work and Babies: Women Still Have to Pick Their Poison (But Men Are Evolving!)

128 Comments | Posted November 23, 2009 | 11:56 AM (EST)


For many women, going back to work a few months after having a baby is overwhelming and unmanageable.

As strange as it may seem, things get even more difficult for a working mom after the second and third baby arrive. By that time, the romance of being a modern "superwoman"...

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Don't Forget to Have Kids -- Part II

248 Comments | Posted November 16, 2009 | 08:17 AM (EST)


Last week I let you know my thoughts on how children could fit into the lives of the professional woman.

Some were not amused.

"Not only is your post embarrassingly stupid," began one tweet, "it's offensive to anyone who believes in reproductive choice"

Thank God the many on twitter...

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Don't Forget To Have Kids

321 Comments | Posted November 9, 2009 | 09:55 AM (EST)


When I speak to young women about life lessons and TV career choices, I try to check off the basics of the business for them.

First, you have to love what you do.

Second, you have to be willing to start at the bottom and linger there until your...

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Getting Fired And How It Teaches You To Be A Better Parent

132 Comments | Posted November 2, 2009 | 11:55 AM (EST)


I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being "let go."

By 38, I had a shiny new contract as the anchor of the Sunday...

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