Washington Post hires Cadell from Reuters

Cate Cadell

Washington Post national editor Steven Ginsberg and national security editor Peter Finn:

We are delighted to announce that Cate Cadell is joining The Post as a national security correspondent who will focus on the U.S.-China relationship.

Cate has spent the past eight years in China, including five years with Reuters, covering politics, human rights, trade and technology. She has reported on the expansive camp system in Xinjiang as well as mass surveillance and labor programs in Xinjiang and Tibet. She broke stories about China’s early handling of the pandemic, including the lack of initial testing, efforts to silence patients and relatives, and the decision-making behind the world’s first covid-19 lockdown.

As an avid coder and data journalist, most of Cate’s stories include digital investigation elements, though her favorite reporting experiences usually have involved trips to China’s less-travelled corners.
Cate began her career freelancing in Asia, including memorable stints at Mongolia’s Ulaanbaatar Post and Myanmar’s Mizzima News. She earned degrees in journalism and international studies from the University of Technology Sydney, where she occasionally got in trouble for reporting from far-flung places when she should have been in class.
Cate grew up riding horses and raising baby kangaroos on a farm in a rural Australia, which, after years of travel, she still considers to be the best place on earth. She speaks Mandarin, is a certified yoga instructor and plays the banjo. She says her Beijing neighbor will be happy to see the instrument move to Washington.

Please join us in welcoming Cate. She starts Nov. 1.

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.