Steff Chávez has been named U.S. defense correspondent at The Financial Times.
Chávez will report on U.S. defense and national security policy. She was most recently the FT’s Washington reporter, covering the Trump administration for the politics and foreign policy team. She also launched the White House Watch newsletter.
Previously she covered the 2024 presidential election and the final year of Joe Biden’s term in office. Prior to Washington, she reported on the U.S. aerospace and defense industry as a Chicago correspondent and a member of the breaking news team. She also wrote about domestic airlines and automakers, and the Midwest more broadly. She joined the FT in 2020.
Chávez has a degree in political science and art history from Bowdoin College and was a journalist in residence at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
