Nick Schifrin Named a Recipient of the Arthur Ross Media Award for Distinguished Reporting and Analysis of Foreign Affairs

ARLINGTON, VA (November 19, 2020) — The American Academy of Diplomacy today will present PBS NewsHour foreign affairs and defense correspondent Nick Schifrin with the Arthur Ross Media Award for Distinguished Reporting and Analysis of Foreign Affairs during a virtual award ceremony. The award recognizes individuals whose reporting on foreign affairs contributes to the public understanding of diplomacy’s role in furthering America’s foreign policy interests. 

Schifrin leads NewsHour’s foreign reporting and has created in-depth series from China, Russia, Ukraine, Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, Cuba, Mexico and the Baltics. The PBS NewsHour series “Inside Putin’s Russia” won a 2018 Peabody Award and the National Press Club’s Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence. 

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.

The American Academy of Diplomacy will also present the Arthur Ross Media Award to Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times and the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Award for exemplary contributions to the field of American Diplomacy to former President Jimmy Carter.

Media contact: Sydney Cameron, Publicist, scameron@newshour.org