Anna Fifield
Anna Fifield is the Asia-Pacific Editor for the Washington Post, based in Wellington.
She is also a former editor of the Dominion Post newspaper in Wellington.
Prior to that she was Beijing bureau chief for The Washington Post, and Tokyo bureau chief focusing on Japan and the Koreas.
Previously she worked for the Financial Times for 13 years. During her time there, she reported from almost 20 countries, from Iran and Libya to North Korea and Australia. During the 2013-2014 academic year, she was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard, studying how change happens in closed societies.
In 2018 she was the Shorenstein Journalism Award recipient for her outstanding reporting on Asia.
She is a regular commentator on radio and television.
Locations
Asia-wide