Nick Schifrin

Nick Schifrin is the foreign affairs and defense correspondent for PBS NewsHour, based in Washington, D.C. He leads NewsHour's foreign coverage and has created in-depth, week-long series from China, Russia, Ukraine, the Baltics, Kenya, Nigeria, Cuba, and Egypt. 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.

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Prior to PBS NewsHour, Schifrin was the Middle East Correspondent for Al Jazeera America and the Afghanistan/Pakistan Correspondent for ABC News. Schifrin is also a Council on Foreign Relations term member and an Overseas Press Club Foundation board member.