Cynthia McFadden
Television journalist
Cynthia McFadden is the senior legal and investigative correspondent for NBC News.
Before joining NBC in 2014, she worked for 20 years at ABC News, where she was the co-anchor of ABC News’ Nightline for nearly ten years, having previously served as the network’s legal correspondent and as a correspondent and co-anchor of Primetime. She has reported from around the world including from Rwanda, Bosnia, El Salvador, China, Israel, South Africa, Liberia, India and Sierra Leone. In addition to covering a vast array of legal issues, her work has often focused on human rights most particularly abuses faced by women and children.
Her work has received most of journalism’s highest honors. As part of ABC’s 9/11 reporting team, McFadden received a Dupont Award. For ABC’s Millennium coverage, she reported from Cuba and was part of the team that was awarded a 2000 Emmy, and in 2009 she was awarded an Emmy as part of the 2008 Inauguration coverage. McFadden’s work has also received a Peabody Award (Hurricane Sandy) and an Overseas Press Club Award (abuses in psychiatric hospitals in Mexico), as well as eight CINE Golden Eagle Awards and the Grand Award at the New York Festivals (death row hour) among many other honors. In 2014, she was presented with the prestigious Matrix Award.
McFadden moderated both the discussion after a Special Screening of Restrepo 2010 and a discussion on the The Primaries and the Presidential Election in 2008 at The Common Good.
Cynthia McFadden returned to participate in Recap: Final Presidential Debate Panel on October 23, 2020. Schoen, Bitecofer and McFadden help unpacked what happened during the final Presidential debate.
Twitter: @CynthiaMcFadden
