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Amna Nawaz (Urdu: آمنہ نواز) is an American broadcast journalist and a co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour alongside Geoff Bennett.[1] Before joining PBS in April 2018, Nawaz was an anchor and correspondent at ABC News and NBC News. She has received a number of awards, including an Emmy Award and a Society for Features Journalism award.
Amna Nawaz | |
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آمنہ نواز | |
Born | Virginia, U.S. | September 18, 1979
Education | University of Pennsylvania (BA) London School of Economics (MS) |
Occupation(s) | Broadcast journalist, anchor, reporter, foreign correspondent |
Known for | PBS NewsHour, NBC News, Washington Week |
Spouse |
Paul Werdel (m. 2007) |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | Asif Nawaz Janjua (uncle) |
Nawaz was born in Virginia on September 18, 1979, to Pakistani parents. Her father, Shuja Nawaz (brother of former Pakistani Army chief Asif Nawaz Janjua), had been a journalist in Pakistan.[2] She attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia.[3] In 2001, she earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in politics, philosophy, and economics, where she co-captained the women's varsity field hockey team.[4] She holds a master's degree in comparative politics from the London School of Economics.[5][6]
Nawaz's career plan was to become a lawyer but after a fellowship at ABC News, she shifted to journalism.[7] She initially worked for Nightline.[5]
Nawaz joined NBC in 2003, later joining Dateline NBC, where she worked on documentaries.[5] At NBC's investigative unit, she was a producer of Mortgage Crisis Investigations, which was nominated for the 2008 Emmy Awards for Business & Financial Reporting.[5][8]
Nawaz received an International Reporting Project fellowship in 2009.[5] In 2010, she shared a News & Documentary Emmy Award for the NBC News special Inside the Obama White House.[9] Later she was correspondent and bureau chief at NBC's Islamabad bureau.[6]
Nawaz joined ABC News in 2015. She anchored U.S. election and national political coverage in 2016 and 2017. Nawaz also hosted the ABC podcast series Uncomfortable.[6] She joined PBS in April 2018.
Nawaz contributed as a correspondent on the PBS NewsHour's 2018 series The Plastic Problem, which received a Peabody Award in 2019.[10]
In December 2019, Nawaz became the first Asian American and first Muslim to moderate a United States presidential debate when she co-moderated a Democratic Party presidential debate.[11][12]
In June 2021, Nawaz became the PBS NewsHour's Chief Correspondent.[13]
Nawaz and Geoff Bennett have been co-anchors of the PBS NewsHour since January 2023, when they replaced Judy Woodruff.[14]
Nawaz is also a member of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington, District of Columbia-based think tank.
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