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Ajasa joins Washington Post as climate and weather reporter

Amudalat Ajasa

Amudalat Ajasa has joined The Washington Post as a climate and weather reporter to cover “extreme weather news and write stories about how extreme weather and climate change are affecting communities in the United States and abroad.”

Ajasa was an Ida B. Wells Society reporting intern at The New York Times, where she gathered data and conducted surveys for the Times’ Pulitzer-winning COVID tracking team. She was a freelance reporter at The Guardian and an investigative reporter at News21.

She interned at the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.

Ajasa has a B.A. in journalism from Hofstra University.

You can congratulate Ajasa on Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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