Nick Schifrin

Nick Schifrin is ABC News' Pakistan-based reporter, responsible for covering Pakistan and Afghanistan. In this role he reports for all ABC News broadcasts, including "World News with Charles Gibson" and "Good Morning America," as well as ABC News Radio and ABC NewsOne, the network's affiliate news service. He also regularly files for ABC News' digital platforms, including ABCNEWS.com, ABC News NOW and ABC News' webcasts.

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Schifrin was one of the first international reporters to arrive on then scene following the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. He has covered all the major events in South Asia in the past year, including the aftermath of Benazir Bhutto's assassination; President Pervez Musharraf's resignation and Asif Ali Zardari's election; the Bangladesh and Myanmar cyclones; and the Marriott hotel bombing in Islamabad. Schifrin has interviewed the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala and won an Emmy for his work on the global food crisis' effect on India.

Schifrin has embedded with Pakistani forces along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, covering their fight against the Taliban in the Bajaur tribal agency. He has also reported on the U.S. military campaigns in Afghanistan as well as in Iraq, where he covered the battle for Sadr City in May 2008 and the beginning of the Iraqi oil rush last summer.

As a producer from 2002 to 2007, Schifrin covered Hurricane Katrina for two weeks in Mississippi, as well as Hurricane Wilma in southern Florida. In 2003, he covered Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign for California governor. And in 2004 he reported on the presidential campaigns, traveling with Senator John Kerry and Senator John Edwards after the Democratic convention.

In 2006 Schifrin helped create the "World News" webcast, a daily 15-minute program designed specifically for the digital audience delivered via iTunes and ABCNEWS.com.

Schifrin began at ABC News as an overnight desk assistant in 2002. A native of Los Angeles, he graduated from Columbia University, where he was the managing editor of The Columbia Daily Spectator.