Geoff Bennett

Geoffrey Robinson Bennett (born April 25, 1980) is an American broadcast journalist and a co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour alongside Amna Nawaz. He has worked as an editor, reporter and news anchor on radio, cable and broadcast television, and online. Early life Bennett grew up in Voorhees, New Jersey. His father, Gary Bennett Sr., was a school administrator. His mother, Lynnca, taught kindergarten. He has an older brother, Gary Bennett Jr. Career Bennett graduated with honors from Morehouse College with a BA in English in 2002. During his senior year, he pursued an internship at ABC News where he was mentored by Carole Simpson, then the weekend anchor of ABC World News Tonight. The internship led to his first job in journalism, an off-air production assistant at World News Tonight at ABC News in New York and then associate producer.