Reuters hires Donati as west and central Africa correspondent

Jessica Donati

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.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.