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Washington Post hires WSJ’s Strobel

December 30, 2024

Posted by Chris Roush

The Washington Post has hired Wall Street Journal reporter Warren Strobel as an intelligence reporter.

He will start Jan. 6.

He has covered American foreign policy, national security and intelligence agencies for 35 years, in Washington and overseas. He has travelled with seven secretaries of state; reported from nearly 100 countries; and deployed to war zones and other hostile environments, including Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Niger and the Palestinian territories.

At the Journal, where he has worked since 2018, Strobel was the first to obtain and report on the highly classified CIA assessment of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s role in the murder of Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. He also broke news of a Chinese military site being covertly constructed in the United Arab Emirates.
His recent reporting has focused on Chinese espionage and military expansion, the origins of the covid virus and the difficulties of human spying in the age of digital surveillance.

Prior to his work at the Journal, Strobel was an editor and correspondent in Reuters’ Washington bureau. Before that, he was a correspondent for Knight Ridder/McClatchy’s Washington bureau, where he was part of a four-person team whose reporting consistently challenged the George W. Bush administration’s case for invading Iraq in 2003.

The story of their award-winning work was told in the 2017 feature film “Shock and Awe,” and in Bill Moyers’ documentary “Buying the War.”

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