Nick Schifrin is PBS NewsHour’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent and host of Compass Points from PBS News. He leads NewsHour’s daily foreign coverage, including multiple reporting trips to Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion, and has produced week-long series from nearly a dozen countries, among them China, Russia, Nigeria, Egypt, and Mexico. His series “Inside Putin’s Russia” won a Peabody Award, and in 2020 he received the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Media Award. He was part of NewsHour teams honored with a 2023 duPont-Columbia Award for coverage of Afghanistan and Ukraine. As Al Jazeera America’s Middle East correspondent, he led coverage of the 2014 Gaza war, reported on Syria’s war from its borders, and covered Russia’s annexation of Crimea. From 2008 to 2012 he was ABC News’s correspondent in Afghanistan and Pakistan and was among the first journalists in Abbottabad after Osama bin Laden’s death. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of the Overseas Press Club Foundation.
