Nick Schifrin Biography
Nick Schifrin (Nicholas Solomon Simon Schifrin) is the foreign affairs and defense correspondent for PBS NewsHour, based in Washington, D.C. He is a former Al Jazeera America’s Middle East correspondent.
Nick Schifrin Age
Nick is 42 years old as of January 2023; he was born in 1980 in Los Angeles, California. He celebrates his birthday on July 10.
Nick Schifrin Height
He stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches tall.
Nick Schifrin Nationality
Nick is an American national.
Nick Schifrin Education
Nick attended Columbia University where he studied his undergrads, graduating in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree of Arts in U.S. History. He also holds a master’s in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he graduated with distinction.
Nick Schifrin Heritage
He belongs to white ethnicity.
Nick Schifrin Parents
Nick has not revealed the name of his parents but he shares their photos on his social media accounts.
#happyfathersday to my dad, who was 41 when he took the top photo. Today is my first #fathersday as a dad, and I am almost exactly my father’s age when he held me. We both agree he wore the beard better. I can only hope I hold my son in the many ways my father has always held me pic.twitter.com/lW6Rx53YgK
— Nick Schifrin (@nickschifrin) June 20, 2021
Nick Schifrin Wife
Schifrin is married to fellow journalist Camilla Schick since 2019. The couple met in 2014, when they were both working in Jerusalem. Eight months after a long-distance relationship, Schick moved to the U.S. and settled in D.C. to be with Schifrin. The couple got engaged in May 2019 while on a trip to Paris.
Camilla Schick is a journalist working as a foreign affairs producer for CBS News. She has worked as video journalist and breaking news producer for The New York Times in London. and a freelance producer and journalist for BBC. She has freelanced in Tel Aviv for BBC, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, and others.
Nick Schifrin Children
Nick and his wife Camilla are parents to a son known as Noah Anthony Rudy Schifrin born on April 18, 2021.
Nick Schifrin PBS Newshour
Nick is the foreign affairs and defense correspondent for PBS NewsHour, based in Washington, D.C. He joined the network in 2015 as a special correspondent. As a foreign affairs and defense correspondent he leads NewsHour’s foreign reporting and has created week-long, in-depth series for NewsHour from China, Russia, Ukraine, Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya, Cuba, Mexico, and the Baltics.
In 2018 the PBS NewsHour series “Inside Putin’s Russia” won a Peabody Award and the National Press Club’s Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence.
Nick was awarded the American Academy of Diplomacy’s Arthur Ross Media Award for Distinguished Reporting and Analysis of Foreign Affairs in November 2020.
He previously worked as Al Jazeera America’s Middle East correspondent. During his tenure, he covered the 2014 war in Gaza; reported on the Syrian war from Syria’s Turkish, Lebanese and Jordanian borders; and covered the annexation of Crimea. He won an Overseas Press Club award for his Gaza coverage and a National Headliners Award for his Ukraine coverage.
He also served as the ABC News correspondent in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2008 to 2012. In March 2012 he became a foreign correspondent based in London where he reported across Europe and Northern Africa.
In 2011 he was one of the first journalists to arrive in Abbottabad, Pakistan, after Osama bin Laden’s death and delivered one of the year’s biggest exclusives: the first video from inside bin Laden’s compound. His reporting helped ABC News win an Edward R. Murrow award for its bin Laden coverage.
Nick Schifrin Painting
In May 2020 while reporting from his house a Twitter user noticed a painting hanging on his wall. The Twitter user commended him for his art to which he replied ‘My work here is done. I’m retiring.’
Nick Schifrin Salary
Nick’s annual base salary ranges between 60,000 to 80, 000.
Nick Schifrin Net worth
Schifrin has an estimated net worth of $1 million.