Nick Shifflin is a foreign and defense correspondent for PBS Newshour. He leads the daily foreign coverage of Newsur, including multiple trips to Ukraine since the full-scale invasion, and has created a week-long series for Newsur’s in nearly 12 countries.
The PBS Newshour series “Inside Putin’s Russia” was awarded the 2017 Peabody Award and the Edwin M. Hood Award from the National Press Club for Diplomatic News. In 2020, Shiffrin was awarded the Arthur Ross Media Award at the American Academy of Diplomacy for his prominent reporting and analysis of diplomacy. He is a member of the Newshour team, awarding the 2021 Peabody for Covid-19 coverage and the 2023 Dupont Columbia Award in compensation for Afghanistan and Ukraine.
Before PBS Newshour, Schifrin was Al Jazeera America’s Middle East correspondent. He led coverage of the 2014 war channel in Gaza. The Syrian Turks, Lebanese and the Syrian war from the Jordanian border were reported. It overturned the annexation of Crimea. He won the overseas Press Club Award for his reporting in Gaza and the National Headliner Award for his reporting in Ukraine.
From 2008 to 2012, Shiffrin served as ABC News correspondent in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In 2011, he was one of the first journalists to arrive in Abotabad, Pakistan after the death of Osama bin Laden, and provided the first video from the compound of Internal Bin Laden, one of the biggest exclusive rights of the year. did. His report helped ABC News win the Edward R. Murrow Award for reporting on bin Laden.
Schifrin is a member of the Foreign Relations Council and a board member of the Overseas Press Club Foundation. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a master’s degree in international public policy from Johns Hopkins Faculty of International Studies (SAIS).
