Serena Altschul
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Serena Altschul (born October 7, 1970 in New York, New York) is an American broadcast journalist, well known for her work at MTV News.
Altschul attended Scripps College for a couple of years studying English literature but never graduated. While in college, she was the associate producer of 1993's The Last Party, a political documentary.
Altschul spent two years at Channel One News, a channel seen nationwide in high schools as an anchor / reporter. In 1995 she landed a job at MTV and in January 1996 started working for MTV News. She also hosted shows such as MTV News: UNfiltered, Breaking it Down and hosted and produced True Life.
During fake newsbreaks on fellow MTV show Sifl and Olly, Sifl (a sock puppet) would claim that Serena was his girlfriend.
Plays herself on Jay-Z's 1999 song, Dope Man.
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, Altschul was named a CBS News contributing correspondent.
She currently lives in New York.
