Nick Schifrin is known as an American news journalist. He is most famous for being PBS NewsHour's foreign affairs and defense correspondent.
Nick Schifrin was born on July 10, 1980 and grew up in Los Angeles, California. After graduating high school in 1998, he enrolled at Columbia University. During his time there, he served as the managing editor of Columbia's student newspaper, The Columbia Daily Spectator. In 2002, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in U.S. History.
Shortly after his college graduation, Nick Schifrin began working at ABC News as an overnight desk assistant. He was promoted to the role of a news reporter in 2007, which led him to New Delhi, India. The following year he became the ABC News Afghanistan and Pakistan correspondent.
Schifrin made the move to London in 2012 where he covered stories in Europe and northern Africa. From 2013-2015, Schifrin worked as a foreign correspondent for Al Jazeera, covering news in the Middle East.
Before PBS NewsHour, Schifrin was Al Jazeera America's first international journalist, situated in Jerusalem. He drove the channel's coverage of the 2014 war in Gaza. He revealed news bites on the Syrian war from Syria's Turkish, Lebanese, and Jordanian fringes. Furthermore, he showed up in Ukraine as violent chaos topped in Kiev and gave an account of the contention in and extension of Crimea. He won an Overseas Press Club grant for his Gaza coverage and a National Headliners Award for his Ukraine coverage.
From 2008-2012, Schifrin filled in as the ABC News reporter in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2011, he was one of the first journalists to show up in Abbottabad, Pakistan after Osama Bin Laden's demise and conveyed one of the year's greatest special features, the first video from inside canister Laden's compound. His coverage helped ABC News win an Edward R. Murrow grant for its Bin Laden coverage. He ran the Islamabad and Kabul agencies for almost four years.
In 2015, he joined PBS NewsHour, where he currently serves as the foreign affairs and defense correspondent. He drives NewsHour's news coverage and has reported all over the world for NewsHour from 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.
Nick was featured in a 2020 PBS NewsHour documentary called "China: Power and Prosperity". The documentary was about the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping and his relationship with the U.S. In the midst of a worldwide pandemic, the two governments are struggling to contain the coronavirus.
Schifrin works with the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, where he teaches and encourages an international strategy class. He is likewise a Council on Foreign Relations term member and an Overseas Press Club Foundation board member. He has a Master of International Public Policy degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies with a focus in Strategic Studies.
Nick Schifrin has not revealed public information about his personal and private relationships.
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| Profession: | Correspondent |
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| Date of Birth: | July 10, 1980 (age 38 years) |
| Nationality: | American |
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| Birth Place: | United States of America |
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| Net Worth 2021: | 100 thousand |
