Background
Margaret Warner is the daughter of Brainard Henry Warner III and Mildred Warner of Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Margaret Warner is the daughter of Brainard Henry Warner III and Mildred Warner of Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Yale University.
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 Public Broadcasting Service" Washington Week In Review and Cable News Network"s The Capital Gang and is a co-host of the radio program America Abroad, which focuses on international issues. She is a graduate of the Holton-Arms School of Bethesda, Maryland, and was one of the first women to graduate from Yale University with a Bachelor, cum laude, in English in 1971.
Her father was a partner in the Washington law firm of Ogilby, Huhn & Barrister
Her mother, Mildred Warner, was a trustee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. Since 2006, Warner has compiled on-the-ground reports for The NewsHour.
Much of her reporting is low-budget and covers civil liberties and politics in South Asia, 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.