 | Margaret G. Warner |
President Richard C. Levin announced that PBS news anchor Margaret G. Warner was elected as the new alumni fellow to the Yale Corporation, effective July 1.
Warner's career in journalism spans more than three decades, during which she has covered important national and international issues for some of the country's leading news organizations. She is a frequent lecturer at universities and has served higher education institutions in several volunteer capacities.
As one of four senior correspondents on public television's weeknight program "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," Warner regularly conducts extensive interviews and manages provocative roundtable discussions with politicians, government officials and other newsmakers. She also serves as a backup anchor to Jim Lehrer and often reports from around the world. Warner's exchanges with leaders have addressed topics in domestic affairs, foreign policy, science and technology, health and the arts.
In addition to her work for the NewsHour, Warner is a co-anchor of "America Abroad," an hour-long radio program devoted to foreign affairs, which airs on over 100 public radio stations through Public Radio International.
Warner joined "The NewsHour" in 1993, after an award-winning career in print journalism. She spent a decade at Newsweek magazine, first as a political and campaign correspondent, then as White House reporter and finally as chief diplomatic correspondent during four years that saw the end of the Cold War and the waging of the first Gulf War. In recognition for this work she won the 1990 Overseas Press Club's Best Reporting Award and was runner-up for the National Press Club's Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Reporting. During this time, she also appeared regularly on news roundtable programs on CNN and PBS. Before working at Newsweek, she was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The San Diego Union and The Concord Monitor in New Hampshire.
Drawing on her journalistic experience, Warner has moderated numerous policy panels and lectured at institutions across the country, including the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs, Texas A&M's Wiley Lecture Series, and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. She has conducted Council of Foreign Relations sessions with guests ranging from the Joint Chiefs chair to presidential candidates. She will moderate the Yale Terry Lectureship's 100th anniversary forum, "The Debate Between Religion and Science: Why It Continues," in September.
A native of Washington, D.C., Warner graduated with a bachelor's degree, cum laude, in English in the first Yale College class that included women. She returned to Yale as the 2004 Poynter Fellow in Journalism, delivering the annual Gary G. Fryer Memorial Lecture on "The Debate Over Civil Liberties in Post-9/11 America." Last year, she was appointed to the President's Council on International Activities, a group that advises Levin on how to expand Yale's international agenda.
Warner currently serves on the board of visitors of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, is a trustee of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She was a member of the 1995 Commission on the Academic Presidency, a one-year project studying the challenges and governance issues facing college and university presidents, sponsored by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.
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