Marcia Biggs is a freelance journalist, focusing on international conflict and humanitarian crises. She contributes regularly to The PBS NewsHour, for whom she recently reported on the crisis in Haiti. With over a decade in the Middle East, her work has highlighted the targeting of doctors in the Syrian civil war, the use of children in armed conflict, as well as various stages of the battle for Mosul and the plight of Yazidi girls who have escaped ISIS captivity. In 2018, she became one of the few television journalists to travel to Yemen, producing a four part series for PBS. A pivot to Latin America took her to Honduras, ground zero of the Central American migration crisis, and Venezuela, where she went undercover to report on the country’s healthcare disaster.
Her work has won numerous awards, including a Gracie Allen Award, two First Place National Headliner Awards, a Sigma Delta Chi Award, and a New York Festivals World Medal. The Newswomen’s Club of New York awarded her the 2018 Marie Colvin Front Page Award for Foreign Correspondence and in, 2019, she was nominated for a George Foster Peabody Award for her work in Yemen. Her work in Honduras and Venezuela garnered her two Emmy nominations and, in 2021, her report on the effects of COVID-19 in Venezuela received a George Foster Peabody Award, as part of PBS NewsHour’s “Global Pandemic”.
Before her work with PBS, Biggs reported for Al Jazeera English, Fox News Channel, CNN, and ABC News, based in New York, Beirut, Baghdad, and Washington DC. Her documentary work includes an unprecedented series on the lives of the men and women of the Boston Police Department, a documentary that reunited the children who survived the Branch Davidian standoff at Waco, and an inside look at the team behind the acclaimed Lord of the Rings trilogy from the heart of New Zealand's "Middle Earth". She also spent 10 years following the widows of 9/11 who were pregnant when their husbands died for various ABC News 9/11 anniversary specials.
Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she completed her Bachelors degree in History at Vanderbilt University and her Masters degree in Middle Eastern Studies from the American University of Beirut. She currently resides in New York City, where she has served as an adjunct professor at the CUNY Newmark School of Journalism and lectures regularly for various organizations on her reporting.