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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

World Feb 21

Russia suspends participation in nuclear treaty as Biden rallies support for Ukraine

One year on since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the two men in charge of the world's largest nuclear arsenals faced off rhetorically. President Biden before a rousing crowd in Warsaw, and Russian President Putin in Moscow in front of an…

World Feb 20

Biden shows solidarity with Ukraine in surprise visit ahead of invasion anniversary

President Biden made an unannounced visit to Kyiv on Monday just days ahead of the one year anniversary of Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine. The administration says it informed Moscow before Biden arrived for the first visit by a…

World Feb 20

How Ukrainian drone pilots are changing the course of the war against Russia

This week marks one year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In the eastern part of the country, frontline units are working to modernize a war that has often seemed an echo from last century. Nick Schifrin and videographer Eric…

World Feb 18

Ukraine fights to hold Bakhmut as U.S. accuses Russia of crimes against humanity

It has been nearly one year since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and today for the first time, the United States has labeled Russian actions in Ukraine as crimes against humanity. Meanwhile, Ukrainian soldiers are barely holding Bakhmut,…

World Feb 15

Russia claims gains in Donbas, NATO says West must meet Ukraine’s demand for artillery

NATO described the fight over eastern Ukraine as a “grinding war of attrition” as Russian forces have launched operations in multiple areas. It comes as Moscow claims to have made incremental gains in Ukraine’s Donbas. Nick Schifrin reports from that…

World Feb 14

Western nations accelerate air defense to Ukraine as Russia launches new offensive

Leaders from a coalition of more than 50 countries that send weapons to Ukraine met to discuss accelerating their assistance. Russian forces have launched fresh offensives in Ukraine’s east and there are concerns about the ability to withstand the attacks.

Nation Feb 10

U.S. shoots down object that crossed into airspace near Alaska

There's been a new incursion by an unidentified object high above American territory and the U.S. military has shot it down. It happened Friday afternoon off northeastern Alaska as the object flew at 40,000 feet. The Biden administration said it…

World Feb 09

New details about Chinese balloon’s spying capabilities revealed by U.S.

The Biden administration released new details on how it says a Chinese balloon spied on the United States last week. Administration officials also faced bipartisan questions from senators about why they let it fly across the country instead of shooting…

World Feb 06

Women in Afghanistan find ways to make their voices heard under Taliban oppression

It's been more than a year since the Taliban banned teenage girls in Afghanistan from school. Women there can't attend college, aren't allowed to work with aid groups or go to amusement parks. We’ve been speaking to young girls whose…

World Feb 03

Chinese surveillance balloon over U.S. raises tensions in already strained relationship

Defense Department officials are tracking a suspected Chinese spy balloon that is making its way across the central part of the U.S. Senior officials say it’s maneuverable, designed for surveillance and Beijing was “trying to fly this balloon over sensitive…

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