Margaret Garrard Warner (born February 12, 1950) is a senior correspondent for '' The PBS NewsHour''. Before joining the ''NewsHour'' in 1993, she was a reporter for ''

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'', and ''

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''. In addition, Warner has appeared on

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'' and

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'' and was co-host of the radio program ''

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'', which focused on international issues.

Education and personal life

Margaret Warner is the daughter of Brainard Henry Warner III and Mildred Warner of

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. She is a graduate of the

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, and graduated from

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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

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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

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. She was married to former Chairman of the

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, until his death in October 2008.

Career

During the 1980s and 1990s, Warner worker as a reporter for ''

'' magazine. Since 2006, Warner has compiled on-the-ground reports for the ''

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''. Much of her reporting is low-budget and covers civil liberties and politics in South Asia, China and Russia. Between 2009 and 2013, she was one of the program's rotating group of co- anchors. She is a member of the

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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."Bio: Margaret Warner"
, ''Yale University'' website

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

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's 1990 Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Reporting. * She also shared, with a Newsweek team, the prestigious

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for coverage of terrorism, and the Best Reporting Award from the

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References

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