WSJ hires Raghavan as senior Middle East correspondent

The Wall Street Journal has hired Sudarsan Raghavan as senior Middle East correspondent.

He has been  a correspondent at large for The Washington Post, based out of Barcelona.

He has spent the past three decades mostly as a foreign correspondent posted variously in Baghdad, Cairo, Johannesburg, Kabul, Madrid and Nairobi (twice), reporting from more than 65 countries on four continents. He has widely covered Islamist movements, global terrorism and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including the 9/11 terrorist attacks and its aftermath, the 2003 Iraq invasion, the 1996 rise of the Taliban, its 2001 fall and 2021 recapture of Afghanista

As Baghdad bureau chief, Sudarsan ran The Post’s largest overseas operation during the Iraq War’s most violent years. A 2001 investigation with a colleague exposed abusive child-labor practices on West African cocoa farms that led to new U.S. anti-slavery legislation and forced U.S. chocolate companies to tackle the abuses. In 2022, he was a frequent MSNBC on-air contributor, covering Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The recipient of numerous awards for international and investigative journalism, Sudarsan joined The Post in 2005 after working for Knight Ridder, the Philadelphia Inquirer and Newsweek. He began his career freelancing from the Afghan-Pakistan border and later post-apartheid South Africa.