Amna Nawaz

Amna Nawaz is an American broadcast journalist and a co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour alongside Geoff Bennett. Before joining PBS in April 2018, Nawaz was an anchor and correspondent at ABC News and NBC News. She has received a number of awards, including an Emmy Award and a Society for Features Journalism award.

Early life Nawaz was born in Virginia on September 18, 1979, to Pakistani parents. Her father, Shuja Nawaz (brother of former Pakistani Army chief Asif Nawaz Janjua), had been a journalist in Pakistan. She attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia. In 2001, she earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in politics, philosophy, and economics, where she co-captained the women's varsity field hockey team. She holds a master's degree in comparative politics from the London School of Economics. She initially worked for Nightline.

Nawaz received an International Reporting Project fellowship in 2009. Later she was correspondent and bureau chief at NBC's Islamabad bureau.

In December 2019, Nawaz became the first Asian American to moderate a United States presidential debate when she co-moderated a Democratic Party presidential debate.

In June 2021, Nawaz became the PBS NewsHour's Chief Correspondent.

Nawaz and Geoff Bennett have been co-anchors of the PBS NewsHour since January 2023, when they replaced Judy Woodruff.

Nawaz is also a member of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington, District of Columbia-based think tank.

Awards News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Society for Features Journalism award 2022 Peabody Award for her reporting on the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.