Josh Mankiewicz is a "Dateline NBC" correspondent based in Los Angeles. He began reporting for "Dateline NBC" in February 1995, and since then, he has contributed a mix of breaking news stories, news analysis and clever features to the broadcast.

Mankiewicz has covered a wide range of stories including Hurricane Katrina, the 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns, the terrorist takeover of Japan's embassy in Lima, Peru, the mysterious mental disorder known as Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, the story of John Walker Lindh, the American who joined the Taliban, and numerous aspects of...