Margaret G. Warner ’71 B.A.
Washington, D.C.
Elected Alumni Fellow in 2006, Margaret Warner is a senior correspondent and on-air anchor on public television’s PBS NewsHour. She is also the lead correspondent for the NewsHour’s overseas reporting unit, covering crucial news events and factors that led to them in Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Russia, China, Kenya, the Vatican, and the major European countries, including the UK and Germany. In 2008 Ms. Warner won an Emmy Award for her coverage of the turmoil in Pakistan and the Edward Weintal Prize for International Reporting from Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy for her overseas reporting. Ms. Warner joined what was then The Macneil-Lehrer NewsHour in 1993 after a career in print journalism. She spent a decade at Newsweek as political and campaign correspondent, White House reporter, and chief diplomatic correspondent. She previously reported for The Wall Street Journal, The San Diego Union, and The Concord [N.H.] Monitor. She is a trustee of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. At Yale she serves on the President’s Council on International Activities.
