Reuters has hired Lizzie Johnson as chief Ukraine correspondent.
She previously worked for The Washington Post on the investigative and international desks
Prior to that, Johnson was on the investigative team at The San Francisco Chronicle, mainly focused on climate and wildfires.
Her first book, “Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire,” is about the blaze that leveled the Northern California town of Paradise. It was awarded the Gold Medal for nonfiction in the 2022 California Book Awards contest and was developed as an Oscar-nominated feature film, starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera, for which she was an executive producer.
Johnson is a four-time finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, most recently for international reporting.
She is a graduate of the University of Missouri.
