Josh
Lederman
Josh Lederman is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, communicator, writer and global affairs analyst.
A longtime White House correspondent, Lederman has spent 15 years at the center of politics, public policy and international affairs, developing particular expertise in national security, diplomacy and climate change.
As a foreign correspondent for NBC News, he reported from around the world for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, MSNBC and other NBC platforms. He has reported on the ground from more than 40 countries and nearly all 50 U.S. states.
In 2023-24, Lederman reported extensively from Israel and the Palestinian territories on the Israel-Hamas war and its global ramifications. In 2021, he traveled throughout Ukraine covering Russia’s war.
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.
A native of Tucson, Ariz., Lederman started his journalism career in the AP’s Jerusalem bureau, and later covered Gov. Chris Christie for the AP in New Jersey. In 2011-2012, Lederman covered presidential, House and Senate campaigns for The Hill newspaper.
He has a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from The George Washington University. Before becoming a journalist, he was an actor and singer in New York City.