About Margaret
Ms. Warner is one of five senior correspondents who join Jim Lehrer on PBS's nightly news program - the PBS NewsHour - reporting on, and interviewing, the men and women who are shaping today's world.
She is also the lead correspondent for the PBS NewsHour’s Overseas Reporting Unit, which has taken her over the past two years to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, France, Britain, Germany, China, Kenya and Iran.
Her coverage of the turmoil in Pakistan won her a coveted Emmy Award in 2008. That same year, she also earned the Edward Weintal Prize for International Reporting by Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, for her overseas reporting.
Ms. Warner joined what was then The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour in 1993 after a career in print journalism. She spent a decade at Newsweek as political and campaign correspondent, White House reporter and chief diplomatic correspondent.
She was a panelist in one of the two fall election debates of the 1988 presidential campaign. She previously reported for The Wall Street Journal, The San Diego Union, and The Concord [N.H.] Monitor.
Her diplomatic coverage for Newsweek during the Gulf War made her runner-up for the National Press Club’s 1990 Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Reporting. She also shared, with a Newsweek team, the prestigious George Polk Award for coverage of terrorism, and won the Best Reporting Award from the Overseas Press Club.
A graduate of Yale University, Ms. Warner lives in Washington, D.C. She serves as a member of the Yale Corporation and is a trustee of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges.
Margaret’s Recent Stories
World Jun 05
Analysis: Qatar-Gulf split means splitting headache for the U.S.Saudi Arabia is the closest U.S. ally in the region, but Qatar hosts (and pays for) a major U.S. military base vital to the air campaign against ISIS.
World May 23
Despite populist campaign rhetoric, public support for NATO growsAs President Trump prepares to fly to Thursday’s NATO summit in Brussels, he and his 27 counterparts should look at a new poll of public attitudes on both sides of the Atlantic about their alliance, and about the threat posed…
Politics Oct 24
Justice Souter’s old warning finds new life in this electionSurprisingly, over the past few days, excerpts of a public conversation I held four years ago with retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter in Concord, New Hampshire, have been circulating on the internet.
World Sep 02
Uzbek president is dead at age 78, government saysThe government of Uzbekistan announced Friday that its president has died at age 78.
World Aug 03
Column: Nobel prize-winner Ahmed Zewail’s struggle to bring Egypt out of the ‘dark ages’The Arab world needs more heroes like Ahmed Zewail, the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian chemist who died yesterday.
Nation Jul 30
Grim mood pervades Aspen meeting of top terror prosAn unaccustomed air of foreboding hangs over this week's Aspen Security Forum, an annual gathering of the nation's top present and past defense, intelligence, counter-terrorism and diplomatic figures who are focused on protecting the American homeland.
World Jul 28
A subtle takedown of Donald Trump by Homeland Security’s Jeh JohnsonThough he never mentioned him by name, Jeh Johnson's message at the Aspen Security Conference was that Donald Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric poses a national security risk to the United States.
World Jun 23
Column: Why the U.S. dreads a ‘leave’ win in the U.K.It's the foreboding of watching a trusted, lifelong friend -- the one you've relied on to have your back through any financial or personal crisis -- about to leap into a messy divorce.
Nation Jun 15
Why the Orlando shooter fell off the FBI’s radar screenThe jumbled picture emerging of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen lay bare the dilemma for law enforcement in confronting the growing threat of home-grown lone wolf terrorists.
World Jun 03
Column: Marines say new fight for Fallujah sparks anguish over Iraq warWatching TV images of Iraqi forces advancing on the ISIS-controlled city of Fallujah and U.S. airstrikes raining down from the sky is a bitter pill to swallow for many veterans of the Iraq war.