Serena Altschul (born October 13, 1970)^[1] is an American broadcast journalist, known for her work at MTV News and CBS.

Altschul was born in New York City,^[2] a daughter of author and botanist Siri von Reis and Arthur Altschul, a member of the Lehman banking family.^[2][3] Her mother was of half-Finnish and half-Swedish ancestry^[2][4] and her father was of Jewish ancestry. After her parents divorced, two-year-old Serena and two siblings were raised by their mother.

Altschul has four siblings,^[3] brother Arthur Goodhart Altschul Jr. and sister Emily Altschul Miller, as well as half-brothers Charles Altschul and Stephen Altschul from her father's previous marriage.^[3]

Altschul attended Scripps College^[5] for a few years, studying English literature, but did not graduate. In 1993, while still in college, she was the associate producer of The Last Party, a political documentary.^[5]

After school, she worked for two years at Channel One News, a channel seen nationwide in high schools, as an anchor/reporter.^[6][2] In 1987 she landed a job at MTV and in January 1996 she started working for MTV News.^{[7][8][9][10]} She also hosted shows such as MTV News: UNfiltered, Breaking it Down and hosted and produced True Life.^[5][7] From 2002 to 2003 Altschul worked at CNN.^[5] 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 correspondent. Since 2013 she has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning.^[7]

She played herself on Jay-Z's 1999 song, "Dope Man". She also appeared as herself in the films Light It Up, Queen of the Damned, and Josie and the Pussycats.

• Edward R. Murrow Award – Sports Reporting 2007