The Financial Times has hired Amy Mackinnon as a U.S.-Europe foreign affairs correspondent.
Mackinnon is national security reporter with Politico, focused on intelligence, reporting on the U.S. intelligence agencies, the congressional oversight committees as well as global intelligence operations.
She joined Politico from Foreign Policy magazine where she spent six years covering the waterfront of U.S. national security and intelligence matters under both the Trump and Biden administrations. She has reported extensively on Russian intelligence operations, disinformation and the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
Mackinnon has reported from over a dozen countries in Europe and the Middle East and began her journalism career working in Moscow. She is the recipient of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia award for her reporting on homophobic vigilantes in Russia.
She speaks Russian and once spoke passable Czech. She is a graduate of the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at CUNY as well as Corvinus University of Budapest and the University of Glasgow.
