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About Nick @nickschifrin

Nick Schifrin is PBS News Hour’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent and serves as the host of Compass Points from PBS News.

He leads News Hour’s daily foreign coverage, including multiple trips to Ukraine since the full-scale invasion, and has created weeklong series for the News Hour from nearly a dozen countries.

The PBS News Hour 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 News Hour 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 News Hour, 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).

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World Feb 04

Experts debate whether U.S. should extend its nuclear arms treaty with Russia

As the New START nuclear arms treaty between the United States and Russia expires, there is debate over whether the U.S. should extend the agreement or walk away. For two perspectives on that debate, Nick Schifrin speaks with Rose Gottemoeller,…

World Feb 03

Colombian President Petro's White House visit defuses months of tensions with Trump

Two presidents known for their fiery rhetoric against each other met Tuesday in the Oval Office and apparently put their acrimony behind them. Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has long been a critic of President Donald Trump and the U.S. itself,…

World Feb 02

Few of Gaza's sick and wounded allowed to leave through reopened Rafah crossing

For the first time in more than a year and a half, Gaza has a border open to the outside world. But Monday’s reopening of the Rafah crossing with Egypt was limited, and comes after a deadly weekend in Gaza.

World Jan 30

After massive protests and a deadly crackdown, how vulnerable is Iran's regime?

Iran is on notice as one of the U.S. military’s largest aircraft carriers arrives in the Middle East after thousands of protesters were killed in a brutal crackdown. How vulnerable is the regime? And what are President Trump’s options if…

Jan 30

After massive protests and a deadly crackdown, how vulnerable is Iran's regime?

Iran is on notice as one of the U.S. military’s largest aircraft carriers arrives in the Middle East after thousands of protesters were killed in a brutal crackdown. How vulnerable is the regime? And what are President Trump’s options if…

World Jan 29

Alienated by Trump, U.S. allies turn to China and India for trade deals

Trade deals around the world are being negotiated, signed and celebrated without the U.S. World leaders are looking to other sources of economic partnership as turbulent tariff policies, harsh rhetoric and unpredictable social media posts from President Trump push allies…

World Jan 23

Trump backs down from Greenland, but how much damage has been done?

A framework for a deal, or an off-ramp? President Trump backs down after his aggressive efforts to acquire Greenland enraged and insulted allies. What’s in the agreement, and how much damage to America’s most important relationships has already been done?…

Jan 23

Trump backs down from Greenland, but how much damage has been done?

A framework for a deal, or an off-ramp? President Trump backs down after his aggressive efforts to acquire Greenland enraged and insulted allies. What’s in the agreement, and how much damage to America’s most important relationships has already been done?…

World Jan 23

National security experts argue U.S. TikTok deal falls short

President Trump announced a deal to keep TikTok available in the U.S. The agreement caps a six-year legal and geopolitical fight after Congress passed a law requiring TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company or face a ban. The…

World Jan 22

Trump unveils his vision to rebuild Gaza into a seaside metropolis

President Trump returned to Washington after wrapping a whirlwind trip to Davos for the World Economic Forum. He seems to have defused a crisis he created by insisting the U.S. acquire Greenland. Trump also presented his plan for what he…

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