Julia Ioffe

About

Journalist known for covering national security along with foreign policy topics for The Atlantic. Her writings have also been published in The Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker. 

Before Fame

She attended Princeton University where she earned her bachelors degree in Soviet history. She began her career as a fact checker for The New Yorker before moving to Colombia Journalism School's Knight Foundation Case Studies initiative. She joined The Atlantic in early 2017. 

Trivia

She won a Fullbright Scholarship which allowed her to return to Russia and work as a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker and Foreign Policy. Her 2013 story about whooping cough was The New Republic's most-read story of the year. 

Family Life

She was born in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to the United states at the age of 7. 

Associated With

Her work is often critical of Russian president Vladimir Putin and American president Donald Trump and has appeared on MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell.