Yardena Schwartz

Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated producer who worked at NBC News, including stints at the Today show, Nightly News with Brian Williams , and MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports . Her reporting has appeared in the New York Times , New York Review of Books , the Wall Street Journal , The Economist , TIME , National Geographic , and Rolling Stone , among other publications. She graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2011 and received an Emmy...See more

Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated producer who worked at NBC News, including stints at the Today show, Nightly News with Brian Williams , and MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports . Her reporting has appeared in the New York Times , New York Review of Books , the Wall Street Journal , The Economist , TIME , National Geographic , and Rolling Stone , among other publications. She graduated with honors from Columbia Journalism School in 2011 and received an Emmy nomination for her work at MSNBC in 2013. She then spent a decade reporting from Israel, earning the 2016 RNA award for excellence in magazine reporting. She now lives in New York's Hudson Valley. See less