Richard Engel — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Chief Foreign Correspondent for NBC News, a position he has held since April 2008.
Authored 'A Fist in the Hornet's Nest' (2004) and 'And Then All Hell Broke Loose' (2016).
Received the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary".
Fluent in Arabic, Italian, and Spanish.
Graduated from Stanford University in 1996 with a B.A. in international relations.

Biography

Richard Engel is an American journalist and author, currently serving as the Chief Foreign Correspondent for NBC News, a role he was assigned on April 18, 2008. Prior to this, he was the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut bureau chief. Before joining NBC in May 2003, Engel reported on the start of the 2003 war in Iraq as a freelance journalist for ABC News in Baghdad.