Melanie Saltzman

Melanie Saltzman reports, shoots and produces stories for PBS NewsHour Weekend. Reporting highlights include producing two stories for NewsHour’s Emmy-nominated “America Addicted” series on the opioid epidemic, reporting from the Marshall Islands on climate change and migration, covering landmine victim assistance programs in Cambodia and traveling to Africa for a series of solutions-based reports. In 2010, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in Berlin, Germany. Melanie holds a masters degree in Journalism from Northwestern University, where she was a McCormick National Security Fellow.