Amna Nawaz

Amna Nawaz is an Emmy, Peabody, and Cronkite award winning journalist who currently serves as Co-Anchor and Co-Managing Editor of the PBS News Hour. 

In addition to anchoring PBS News’ flagship national news broadcast, Nawaz co-hosts the podcast 'Settle In,' featuring thought leaders from all walks of life. She's also hosted a primetime arts show, and documentaries on everything from America’s childcare crisis to global plastic pollution to life after incarceration. 

Her reporting ranges from politics and foreign affairs, to immigration and education, to culture and sports. She has anchored the show from the U.S. Southern border, Israel after the October 7th attacks, and Kyiv, Ukraine during it's war with Russia. Nawaz has interviewed presidents and heads of state, White House officials and lawmakers, professional athletes and musicians, and citizens around the world in the communities they call home. 

Prior to joining PBS, Nawaz was anchor and correspondent at ABC News, anchoring breaking news coverage and leading the network’s livestream coverage of the 2016 presidential election. She also hosted the 'Uncomfortable' podcast and reported a documentary on the Texas county with the highest rate of support for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Before ABC, Nawaz was a foreign correspondent and Islamabad Bureau Chief for NBC News, where she regularly reported on the war in Afghanistan and the broader region. 

She lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband and their two daughters.

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