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Margaret Warner

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.

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Margaret’s Recent Stories

Politics Jul 27

Romney’s Trip Abroad: Campaign Peril or Credential Maker?

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron meets with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at 10 Downing Street in London, on July 26, 2012. Photo By David Bebber/ AFP/ Getty Images. Mitt Romney's folks were feeling pretty sure of themselves Tuesday evening…

World Jul 03

Mexico’s President-Elect: Legalization Should Be Part of Drug Strategy Debate

MEXICO CITY | The president-elect of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, said Tuesday Mexico should have a debate about legalizing and regulating the sale of drugs here, an approach advocated by some other Latin American leaders to take marijuana sale profits…

World Jul 01

Why Mexico’s Ruling Party Seems Headed for Defeat

Margaret Warner interviews voter Judith Cordova at polling site Sunday. Photos by Morgan Till/NewsHour. MEXICO CITY | If you want to know why President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party, PAN, is going to lose today, just ask 53-year-old divorcee Judith…

World Jun 28

Where Frontrunner Pena Nieto Might Take Mexico’s Drug War

Military police stand guard at the scene of a murder in Juarez, Mexico. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Mexico's presidential candidates have offered so few specifics about the No. 1 issue to voters -- how to tame the grisly violence…

World Jun 20

The Mexican People’s Dilemma in Drug War Is Next President’s, Too

MEXICO CITY — I wandered into an artsy jewelry shop Tuesday afternoon in Pedragal, an upscale neighborhood in Mexico City. I left not only with a sparkly gift for a friend, but with deeper and more troubling understanding of the…

World Jun 18

The Most Important Presidential Race You Haven’t Heard About

Enrique Pena Nieto and his wife telenovela actress Angelica Rivera Hurtado at a rally in Atlacomulco, Mexico. Photo by Morgan Till for the PBS NewsHour. ATLACOMULCO, Mexico | Enrique Pena Nieto, the telegenic front-runner in the Mexican presidential race, waded…

World Mar 04

Despite Allegations of Fraud, Russia’s Voters Demand to Be Counted

// Updated at 5 p.m. ET: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claimed victory in Sunday's presidential election in Russia. Exit polls showed him receiving 58-59 percent of the vote based on exit polls cited by state television, reported the Associated…

World Feb 29

Influential Russian Blogger: Opposition ‘Will Not Recognize…Election Results’

// MOSCOW | Russian blogger Alexei Navalny, who has emerged as one of the most potent new figures opposing Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's bid to regain the presidency, said he and many others in the opposition will not accept…

World Feb 27

Russia Dispatch: Hand-in-Hand Against Putin’s Presidency Bid

Protesters, including blogger Alexei Navalny (center), form a human chain in Moscow. Photo by Margaret Warner/PBS NewsHour. MOSCOW | Snow fell steadily all day, large fat flakes and light airy ones, but that didn't deter the thousands of Russians who…

World Feb 15

Author Beppe Severgnini on What Makes Italians Tick During Crisis

Italian author Beppe Severgnini and Margaret Warner in Crema, Italy. On our recent foray to Germany and Italy to explore the political and social dimensions of the European debt crisis, one person we felt we had to see to…

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