Amna Nawaz

Amna Nawaz received an Emmy Award nomination in 2008 for Business & Financial Reporting for her contributions to Dateline NBC’s ‘Mortgage Crisis Investigations.’ She continued her impactful work at NBC, sharing a News & Documentary Emmy Award in 2010 for the NBC News special ‘Inside the Obama White House.’ As a correspondent and bureau chief for NBC in Islamabad, Pakistan, Nawaz notably became the first foreign journalist granted access to North Waziristan, establishing her reputation for rigorous international investigative journalism. In 2015, Nawaz transitioned to ABC News, where she anchored breaking news coverage and led the network’s comprehensive livestream of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. During her tenure at ABC, she hosted the compelling documentary ‘Roberts County: A Year in the Most Pro-Trump Town’ and developed the podcast series ‘Uncomfortable’ for ABC News Radio, demonstrating her versatility across diverse journalistic platforms and her ability to engage audiences on complex social and political issues.

Nawaz joined PBS NewsHour in April 2018, rapidly advancing to Chief Correspondent in June 2021 before being named co-anchor and co-managing editor alongside Geoff Bennett in January 2023. She has reported globally on critical events including the January 6th Capitol attacks, U.S. presidential elections, mass shootings, Hurricane Katrina, and the U.S. war in Afghanistan.

Nawaz also hosted the criminal justice podcast ‘Broken Justice’ (2020) and the pandemic-focused podcast ‘The Longest Year’ (2021), in addition to documentary work like ‘Raising the Future’ (2021) and ‘Life After Lockup’ (2022). In recognition, she was named an A100 honoree by Gold House (2023) and received Diversity Woman Media’s Pioneer Award and the Women’s Foreign Policy Group’s Breaking Barriers in Journalism Award, both in 2024. She is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asian American Journalists Association.