Liz Landers Named White House Correspondent for PBS News Hour

Tuesday, August 12 (Arlington, VA) – PBS News Senior Executive Producer Sara Just today named Liz Landers as White House correspondent for public television’s flagship nightly news broadcast, PBS News Hour. The Emmy Award-winning journalist joins from Scripps News, where she’s served as a national security correspondent since 2024, while also covering disinformation. She will join the News Hour on September 15.

“I am delighted to soon welcome Liz to the PBS News Hour team to lead our day-to-day coverage from the White House and a wide range of issues,” said Just, who also serves as an SVP of WETA. “Liz’s experience in both daily news coverage and long form features are an ideal fit for our ambitious, multi-platform newsroom.”

Landers added, “I am thrilled to join the team of dedicated and highly respected journalists at PBS News Hour. At this critical time in our nation’s history, I look forward to covering the White House and this administration for public broadcasting’s iconic nightly news program.”

Prior to Scripps, Landers was the chief political correspondent at Vice News where she covered politics for four years inside and outside the Beltway, and won both an Emmy Award and Webby Award for her coverage. At Vice News, she had exclusive interviews with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Steve Bannon. Landers spent time as a television and radio reporter at ABC News in Washington in 2023. In the earlier years of her career she covered the 2016 campaign trail, the White House, and Capitol Hill for CNN as a producer and reporter.

In 2023, Landers was also a fellow at the International Strategy Forum at Schmidt Futures. She is a graduate of Tufts University.