MS. HERNÁNDEZ: Let’s go ahead and get started. It’s been three months since you took over the anchor chair at NewsHour. What have you found to be the most surprising part of the job?
MS. NAWAZ: Ooh, that’s a good question. You know, I don’t often get to sit down and think about the job. I’m just so busy doing the job. Nothing has really surprised me, to be honest. I think one of the best parts about stepping in at this moment, along with my co-anchor Geoff Bennett, has just been that it’s been an incredibly busy news cycle, and I don’t have to tell you that. I mean, we have just been kind of hitting the ground running since day one.
Our first week in the chairs was the round of House Speaker votes for Kevin McCarthy, and then we went right into coverage of the president’s State of the Union address, of course, continuing coverage of the war in Ukraine. We’ve had a number of big events since then. It’s just kind of been nonstop.
I think, if anything, I’m probably surprised by how normal it all feels. This was not a job I ever set out to get when I began my career 20 years ago. It wasn’t a job I ever saw someone like myself filling, and at the same time, the first night we sat in the chairs, I remember thinking, “This feels normal. This feels like the place I’m supposed to be.” That probably surprised me more than anything.
MS. HERNÁNDEZ: Well, nightly news has changed pretty significantly in the past 20 years where you would only see, you know, older White men delivering the news: Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather. What does it mean to you to be in this position? You never imagined yourself being here, but now…
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