Michelle Franzen

Michelle Franzen is a National Correspondent for NBC News Channel based in New York since 2001. She reports on a wide range of issues and events for NBC affiliate stations, MSNBC, The Today Show and Nightly News. Her reporting includes extensive live reporting from New York City and Ground Zero during 9/11 and numerous enterprise stories on 9/11's aftermath. She has reported from the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, covered national and international politics, presidential primaries and elections, economic issues as well as numerous regional events of national interest.

From 1998-2001 Franzen was a Reporter and Fill-in anchor for KRON in San Francisco. Her reporting included extensive coverage of the San Francisco dog mauling death of Diane Whipple with interviews at the Hayfork, California dog breeding farm and in the Pelican Bay State Prison SHU, live reporting on the Yosemite National Park Sund-Pelosso and Armstrong murders, live reporting on mudslides, fires and floods in Northern California as well as national, local and state elections and politics.

From 1995-1998 Franzen was a Reporter and Fill-in anchor for KTXL in Sacramento, California. Her reporting included live coverage throughout the Unabomber/Theodore Kaczynski trial, extensive coverage of the Richard Allen Davis trial for the murder of Polly Klaas, as well as, state and local elections and politics.

From 1994-1995 Franzen was a Reporter for KFTY in Santa Rosa, California.

In 1993 Franzen graduated with a B.S. Journalism from California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly-SLO) and started her career as a Broadcast Journalist at KEYT Santa Barbara, California as a Reporter and Fill-in anchor.

Franzen is a member of the Cal Poly-SLO Journalism Department Advisory Board