Reuters has hired Jessica Donati as its west and central Africa chief correspondent.
She will start in August.
Donati was covering foreign affairs and national security for The Wall Street Journal in Washington before leaving the paper in April.
She joined the paper as the bureau chief in Afghanistan. She previously worked for Reuters in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2022 for her work on America’s exit from Afghanistan.
She is the author of the book “Eagle Down: American Special Forces At the End of Afghanistan’s War,” a Financial Times Book of the Year, which tells the heroic and tragic stories of the soldiers fighting to keep Afghanistan from collapse. She was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2012 for her work on a series on the Libyan Revolution.
Donati is a graduate of the University of Warwick.
