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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

Nation Jan 23

Mexico’s former anti-narcotics chief on trial in U.S., accused of protecting cartels

In New York, arguments began in the case of the highest-ranking Mexican official to ever stand trial in the U.S. Prosecutors say the very man responsible for working with the U.S. to enforce the war on drugs, Genaro García Luna,…

World Jan 20

U.S. and European nations sending more arms to Ukraine, but not tanks

Ukraine is still battling through a winter of war and still appealing for tanks to help turn the tide against the Russians. The U.S. and dozens of other countries wrestled with that question for more than five hours at a…

World Jan 19

New Zealand PM stepping down after becoming global symbol of female leadership

Lawmakers in New Zealand are negotiating over the country’s next prime minister after Jacinda Ardern made a surprise announcement she would step down before the end of her second term. She has been New Zealand’s youngest prime minister in 150…

World Jan 18

Ukrainian interior minister among 14 killed in helicopter crash near Kyiv

For the first time in nearly 11 months of war with Russia, a Ukrainian cabinet member is dead. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi was killed when his helicopter went down in a suburb of Kyiv. In all, at least 14 people…

World Jan 16

Russian strike kills dozens of civilians as Western nations pledge more aid to Ukraine

The death toll from a Russian strike in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro rose to 40, with dozens still missing. The rescue efforts continue, but officials acknowledge little hope of finding anyone alive. It was one of the deadliest single…

World Jan 13

U.S. and Japan boost cooperation as Marines adapt controversial plan to counter China

At the White House, President Biden welcomed the prime minister of Japan as he ended a tour of top industrial and military allies. Japan, like many nations in Asia and beyond, is wary of a rising China. The two leaders…

World Jan 11

Russian mercenaries claim territory in brutal, violent fight in eastern Ukraine

Moscow announced a new commander for the war in Ukraine and claimed victory in one of the bloodiest battles in more than 10 months. The fight for key cities in eastern Ukraine has barely moved for months, but Russia said…

World Jan 09

Supporters of defeated far-right president storm government buildings in Brazil

Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro stormed the center of power in Brazil’s capital, demanding the military take over and evict current president Lula da Silva. More than 1,500 have been arrested, and Bolsonaro, who is currently in Florida,…

World Jan 06

WATCH: How did the Jan. 6 attack affect the rest of the world?

While the insurrectionists failed to overturn President Joe Biden’s election victory, it was a defining moment not only in the United States, but internationally. Images of a mob attacking the symbol of American democracy, seemingly emboldened by words by the…

World Jan 05

The controversial legacy Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI leaves behind

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI was celebrated Thursday at a funeral mass in St. Peter's Square with his successor, Pope Francis, presiding. Though retired nearly a decade, Benedict was a leading light for conservatives in the church. Others look at his…

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