Serena Altschul

Serena Altschul (born October 13, 1970, in New York City) is an American broadcast journalist, well known for her work at MTV News. She is the daughter of author and botanist Siri von Reis and Arthur Altschul, a former partner at Goldman Sachs. Her mother is of half-Finnish and half-Swedish ancestry and her father is of Jewish ancestry. When her parents divorced, 2-year-old Serena and her two siblings were raised by their mother. Her half-brother is mathematician Stephen Altschul. Altschul attended Scripps College for a couple of years, studying English literature, but did not graduate. While in college, she was the associate producer of 1993's The Last Party, a political documentary. She 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 she started working for MTV News. 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 MTV News while at CNN. On December 23, 2003, she was named a CBS News contributing