The man who took news reporting to an amazing height through his skill and experience is reading and reporting actively even today. Winning awards for his coverage and speaking courageously in any matter, Nick Schifrin sure is a joy to watch.
Early Life
Nick Schifrin was born on July 10, 1980. He is currently at the age of 42 and will turn 43 on his birthday in 2023. He grew up in Los Angeles with his family.
Nick graduated from Columbia University, where he worked as the managing editor of The Columbia Daily Spectator.
The names of his parents are not yet known; however, he does post about his father on his social media accounts. Back in June 2021, on Father's Day, Nick shared an old picture of his dad with him and his picture with his baby, wishing his father Father's Day.
Career
Starting with ABC News, Nick joined ABC as an overnight desk assistant in 2002.
In 2006, he helped start the World News Webcast, the first network show made for the web and iTunes. He wrote the play and was in charge of getting it on the air.
In 2007, Schifrin moved to New Delhi, India, and started working as a reporter for ABC News. He covered the unrest in Tibet in 2008 and won a Business Emmy for his coverage of the global food crisis.
He also wrote about the 2008 attacks in Mumbai. In 2008, he became the Afghanistan/Pakistan correspondent and bureau chief for ABC News.
After Osama bin Laden's death, he was one of the first journalists to arrive in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Schifrin moved to London in 2012 and covered breaking news and feature stories all over Europe and northern Africa.
In November 2013, Schifrin became the first foreign correspondent for Al Jazeera America. He was based in Jerusalem and mostly wrote about the Middle East. During the political turmoil in Ukraine at the beginning of 2014, he reported from there, including from Crimea.
He and his team won a National Headlines Award for their coverage. Schifrin was in charge of the channel's coverage of the war in Gaza in the summer of 2014, and she reported from Gaza longer than almost any other foreign reporter. He and his team won the David Kaplan Award from the Overseas Press Club for covering the war from both sides of the border.
In May 2018, Schifrin became the foreign affairs and defense correspondent for PBS NewsHour. Before that, he had been a special correspondent since late 2015, making several week-long series about different countries and regions.
In 2018, his series Inside Putin's Russia won a Peabody Award and the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence-Broadcast from the National Press Club. His series, "China: Power and Prosperity," won the Arthur Ross Media Award from the American Academy of Diplomacy. Schifrin was part of a team that won a Peabody Award in 2021 for covering the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Where were you on 9/11?”, an article titled Reading Shakespeare in Kandahar written by Nick talks about his life, from being in college in New York City when the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened to reporting on Osama bin Laden's death ten years later.
The piece thinks about how the US didn't listen to Shakespeare's warnings about how bad revenge is, which Schifrin's college professor had talked about in class after the attacks.
The article is Schifrin's own reflection on how he got to Afghanistan and how important it is to understand how complicated the area is. Schifrin talks about the people he met while covering the war, like Afghan Shakespearean actors and scholars.
The article also talks about how hard it is to be a reporter in a war zone, including how hard it is to stay safe while telling important stories.
Award Collection
Not just athletes and artists, journalists win awards for their artistic and energetic coverage too, and Nick has several of them.
Schifrin was on a team that won a Peabody Award in 2021 for covering the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020, he won the Arthur Ross Media Award from the American Academy of Diplomacy.
In 2018, he won the Edwin M. Hood Award for Broadcast Diplomatic Correspondence from the National Press Club and the Peabody Award for "Inside Putin's Russia."
In 2015, he won the David Kaplan Award from the Overseas Press Club for "Conflict in Gaza." In 2012, he won the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association for "Target bin Laden: The Death of Public Enemy #1."
He also won an Emmy Award in 2008 for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story in Long Form.
Nick Schifrin's Wife And Children
The journalist is married to Camilla Schick, a foreign affairs producer at CBS, whom he met in 2014 in Jerusalem, and met in several places while performing international courtship.
The couple settled in Washington, DC, and on a trip to Paris in 2019, Camilla said yes to Nick’s marriage proposal.
It is a very amazing thing to witness a journalist who has seen a lot be romantic, and that is what we all love. In 2019, around Thanksgiving, the couple tied the wedding knot, promising to be together forever.
In 2021, they re-married in England, his wife’s homeland, which they could not do earlier because of the pandemic.
The beautiful couple welcomed their son Noah Anthony Rudy Schifirin on April 18, 2021, and Nick has explained why his son has such a long name, which sounds absolutely poetic. He wrote,
"Anthony, C’s honorary godfather whom we lost last year, who taught her so much about life and death, and instilled her love and respect for nature"
He continued,
"Rudy, Nick’s maternal grandfather whom we lost in 2016, whose values and whose love of family we hope Noah will inherit."
Nick is emotionally connected to his father, and he absolutely wants his son to connect with his grandfather as well. In his Instagram posts, he often talks about his father and son and how much they mean to him.
The busy news expert loves posting about his son and his news updates. He is also a dog lover, and his bio proudly says ‘dog dad’ so it is safe to claim the dog is one of his children.
Nick Schifrin Net Worth
Wiki sources suggest that Nick has healthy assets that add up to $3 million, and he earns an annual salary of $103,000+ from PBS NewsHour.
Physical Statistics
The 42-year-old Nick stands at 5 feet 6 inches tall and his busy and hectic life has turned his hair and beard white. He has a charming appearance with amazing black/brown eyes.
