Josh Lederman

As an on-air Washington and foreign correspondent for NBC News, Josh Lederman reported from around the world for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, MSNBC and other NBC platforms. He reported live from the U.S. Capitol throughout the January 6, 2021 attacks, winning an Emmy Award with his NBC colleagues for outstanding live breaking news coverage.

A White House reporter during the Biden, Trump and Obama administrations, Lederman was also NBC's lead reporter covering the Mike Bloomberg and Pete Buttigieg presidential campaigns in 2020. He won the White House Correspondents' Association's Merriman Smith Award in 2015 for excellence in presidential news coverage under deadline pressure.

Lederman has also been an adjunct faculty member at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where he taught undergraduate and graduate seminars in covering politics and the presidency.

Previously, Lederman was a White House reporter for The Associated Press and a member of the permanent press pool covering President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden. He also covered foreign affairs and national security based at the State Department.

Josh served as a resident fellow at Princeton University's Center for International Security Studies, where his research centered on AI and tech policy, global security challenges and U.S.-China competition. He holds a master's in public policy from Princeton University and a master's in journalism from Northwestern University.