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 The Wall Street Journal, The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Concord Monitor, and Newsweek. In addition, Warner has appeared on PBS' Washington Week In Review and CNN's The Capital Gang and was co-host of the radio program America Abroad, which focused on international issues.

Education and personal life

Margaret Warner is the daughter of Brainard Henry Warner III and Mildred Warner of Chevy Chase, Maryland. She is a graduate of the Holton-Arms School of Bethesda, Maryland, and graduated from Yale University 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 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. She was married to former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, John R. Reilly, until his death in October 2008.

Career

During the 1980s and 1990s, Warner worker as a reporter for Newsweek magazine. Since 2006, Warner has compiled on-the-ground reports for the PBS NewsHour. Much of her reporting is low-budget and covers civil liberties and politics in South Asia, China and Russia. Warner has compiled a number of reports on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, China and Russia. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee of the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges, and she serves on the President's Council on International Activities at Yale University.

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