The following excerpt was sent out from The Washington Post’s foreign editor Douglas Jehl, deputy foreign editor Jennifer Amur and Russian and Eastern Europe editor David M. Herszenhorn:
Siobhán O’Grady
We are happy to announce that Siobhán O’Grady will become The Post’s chief Ukraine correspondent, beginning this summer.
Siobhán has been Cairo bureau chief since 2021. But she has spent many of the past 15 months in Ukraine, demonstrating courage, compassion and journalistic excellence while playing a pivotal role in every aspect of our coverage of the war and the people affected.
Siobhán joined The Post in 2018 as a foreign affairs writer based in the D.C. newsroom. Before moving to Cairo as bureau chief, she reported for The Post from Afghanistan, Cameroon and Lebanon.
She is a graduate of Dickinson College and has studied in Morocco and Cameroon. Siobhán began her career at Foreign Policy, then spent 18 months freelancing across Africa from Nigeria, Togo, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana and elsewhere for the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic and other news outlets. She speaks fluent French and elementary Arabic and is learning Ukrainian.