Saturday, June 8, 2019

TV newswoman Amna Nawaz

Amna Nawaz (her last name is pronounced "Na-VAHS") is the latest person to join the on-air staff of the PBS Newshour.


Ms.  Nawaz set out to be a lawyer but decided to follow in the footsteps of her Pakistani immigrant father, who had been a journalist in Pakistan.  Since she joined the PBS Newshour in April 2018, she's not only led on-air panel discussions and filled in for anchor Judy Woodruff (an earlier honoree on this blog), but she's also done some hard-hitting stories on the immigration crisis affecting the U.S.-Mexico border.
 
She started and ended her career in commercial-television journalism at ABC, having worked for ABC's "Nightline" in the early 2000s and returned there in 2015, but in between she was at NBC News, where she worked on documenatires and "Dateline NBC,"  Ms. Nawaz distinguished herself as a producer on a program investigating the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007.

Amna Nawaz is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, having gotten a bachelor's degree in politics, philosophy, and economics there.  She also earned a master's degree in comparative politics from the London School of Economics. 

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