Geoff Bennett (journalist)

He and Amna Nawaz have been co-anchors of the PBS NewsHour since January 2023, when they replaced Judy Woodruff.

In November 2021, while continuing to contribute to NBC and MSNBC, he started work as the chief Washington correspondent for the PBS NewsHour and the anchor of PBS News Weekend.

He returned to NPR in 2017 as an on-air reporter based in Washington, D.C., covering Congress and the White House.

In November 2017, he became a White House correspondent for NBC and substitute anchor for MSNBC. In September, 2021, on the day that police and paramedics were indicted in the death of Elijah McClain, he choked up while reading the young African-American man's last words.

Starting in 2013, he reported on-camera from Washington, D.C., for NY1 News and other Time Warner Cable news channels. He was also a guest host of Washington Journal on C-SPAN.

In 2007, he joined NPR in Los Angeles as a digital producer and editor for News & Notes, and was regularly heard on-air. He moved to Washington, D.C. in 2009 to be an editor at Weekend Edition.

In 2006, he took a job as a reporter and editor for the online service AOL Television. He covered television and the entertainment industry and said that work honed his interviewing skills.

Bennett graduated with honors from Morehouse College with a BA in English in 2002. During his senior year, he pursued an internship at ABC News where he was mentored by Carole Simpson, then the weekend anchor of ABC World News Tonight.

Geoffrey Robinson Bennett (born April 25, 1980) is an American broadcast journalist and a co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour alongside Amna Nawaz. He has worked as an editor, reporter and news anchor on radio, cable and broadcast television, and online.