Margaret Warner
Birth Name:
Margaret Warner
Birth Place:
Chevy Chase, Maryland, United States
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․"
Awards
- 2008Emmy - Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine:Winner