Margaret Warner Biography

Fast Facts

• The University of Rochester's Graduate School of Education and Human Development was renamed in her honor in 1993
• Won the Best Reporting Award from the Overseas Press Club and was the runner-up for the Edwin M․ Hood Award for Diplomatic Reporting for her coverage of the Gulf War in 1990
• Won the Edward Weintal Prize for International Reporting from Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy for her overseas reporting
• Graduated Cum Laude from Yale University with a degree in English in 1971, one of the first women to do so
• Started out as a print journalist for The Concord Monitor and The San Diego Union
• Has reported for The Wall Street Journal and spent a decade as the political and campaign correspondent for Newsweek
• Is also the lead correspondent for the Overseas Reporting Unit at "The PBS NewsHour," for which she has traveled to Afghanistan, Russia, and Kenya, among other places
• Best known as a journalist and Chief Foreign Correspondent for "The PBS NewsHour․"