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About Nick @nickschifrin

Nick Schifrin is PBS NewsHour’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent. He leads NewsHour’s daily foreign coverage, including multiple trips to Ukraine since the full-scale invasion, and has created weeklong series for the NewsHour from nearly a dozen countries.
The PBS NewsHour series “Inside Putin’s Russia” won a 2017 Peabody Award and the National Press Club’s Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence. In 2020 Schifrin received the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Media Award for Distinguished Reporting and Analysis of Foreign Affairs. He was a member of the NewsHour teams awarded a 2021 Peabody for coverage of COVID-19, and a 2023 duPont Columbia Award for coverage of Afghanistan and Ukraine.
Prior to PBS NewsHour, Schifrin was Al Jazeera America's Middle East correspondent. He led the channel’s coverage of the 2014 war in Gaza; reported on the Syrian war from Syria's Turkish, Lebanese and Jordanian borders; and covered the annexation of Crimea. He won an Overseas Press Club award for his Gaza coverage and a National Headliners Award for his Ukraine coverage.
From 2008-2012, Schifrin served as the ABC News correspondent in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2011 he was one of the first journalists to arrive in Abbottabad, Pakistan, after Osama bin Laden’s death and delivered one of the year’s biggest exclusives: the first video from inside bin Laden’s compound. His reporting helped ABC News win an Edward R. Murrow award for its bin Laden coverage.
Schifrin is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of the Overseas Press Club Foundation. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a Master of International Public Policy degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Nick’s Recent Stories

Politics Jul 25

‘Fear not,’ Pompeo reassures as senators raise foreign policy concerns

Two months, two summits, two mysteries: What did President Trump promise in his meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un? Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faced the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to defend the…

World Jul 20

Iraq and Afghan war vets exposed to toxic air struggle for breath — and a diagnosis

Among the more than 2.5 million men and women who have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there are many veterans -- exposed to sandstorms, burn pits and other hazards -- who suffer from a mysterious pulmonary illness,…

World Jul 02

Elected by a landslide, can Mexico’s López Obrador deliver on dramatic promises?

Mexican president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador beat his two main rivals by double digits in Sunday's election, cementing a strong mandate in a country that has spoken up for change. Nick Schifrin reports from Mexico City about why the public…

World Jun 29

Tapping national rage, Mexican election frontrunner promises to overturn the system

Mexicans go to the polls Sunday for the largest election in the country’s history. But despite Mexico's tense relationship with President Trump, the campaign there has focused almost entirely on domestic issues and anger at Mexican politicians. Nick Schifrin reports.

World Jun 25

Running for their lives was the only option for these migrants

For many of the immigrant families now separated in the U.S. by Trump administration policy, their stories began with terror and persecution in their home countries. In Mexico City, Nick Schifrin meets two Central American families making the arduous journey…

World Jun 22

Saudi women are finally in the driver’s seat, but not of their own lives

Saudi Arabia has banned women from driving since the 1950s, and is the only country in the world to do so. But this Sunday that prohibition ends. Nick Schifrin looks at the state of women's rights in the kingdom, and…

World Jun 11

Why previous North Korea negotiations have failed

The road to Tuesday's summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore has been long and dangerous, littered with fraught diplomacy, broken agreements and threats of war. Nick Schifrin looks back at how we got…

World May 25

Vote over abortion ban underscores how Ireland is changing

In historically religious Ireland, the voting booths are in churches. But this is not the same country once dominated by Catholicism. A new constitutional amendment up for vote on Friday would allow Parliament to legalize unrestricted abortion during the first…

World May 22

The risks of the North Korea summit for U.S.-South Korea relations

President Trump voiced doubts about whether a planned summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un would proceed as planned, as he met with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in at the White House. Nick Schifrin talks with Balbina Hwang of…

Politics May 16

Where Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation stands, one year later

As Robert Mueller’s special counsel probe marks its first year, the Senate Judiciary Committee released thousands of pages of documents providing the most comprehensive look at an undisclosed meeting in Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer. Nick Schiffren talks with…

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