Margaret Garrard Warner is a senior correspondent for The PBS NewsHour

The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

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. Before joining the NewsHour in 1993, she was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal

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, The San Diego Union-Tribune

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, the Concord Monitor

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, and Newsweek

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In addition, Warner has appeared on PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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' Washington Week In Review and CNN

CNN

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's The Capital Gang

Capital Gang

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and is a co-host of the radio program America Abroad

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, which focuses on international issues.

Education and personal life

Margaret Warner is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brainard Henry Warner III of Chevy Chase, Maryland

Chevy Chase, Maryland

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. She is a graduate of the Holton-Arms School

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 of Bethesda, Maryland

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, and was one of the first women to graduate from Yale University

Yale University

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 with a BA, cum laude, in English in 1971. Her father was a partner in the Washington law firm of Ogilby, Huhn & Barr. Her mother, Mildred Warner, was a trustee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art

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 in Washington.

Warner is a great-granddaughter of the founder of the Washington Loan and Trust Company, which was consolidated into the Riggs National Bank

Riggs National Bank

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She was married to former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission

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, John R. Reilly

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 , until his death in October 2008.

Career

Since 2006, Warner has compiled on-the-ground reports for The NewsHour. Much of her reporting is low-budget and covers civil liberties and politics in South Asia, China and Russia.

She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

Council on Foreign Relations

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, a trustee of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges , and she serves on the President’s Council on International Activities at Yale University.

Awards and honors

• 2008. 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
• 1990. Her diplomatic coverage for Newsweek during the Gulf War made her runner-up for the National Press Club
  National Press Club
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  ’s 1990 Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Reporting.
• She also shared, with a Newsweek team, the prestigious George Polk Award for coverage of terrorism, and the Best Reporting Award from the Overseas Press Club
  Overseas Press Club
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External links

• Profile at PBS NewsHour
  • blog entries at The Rundown
• Margaret Warner at the American Program Bureau