Anna Fifield is leaving her role as Beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post to join Stuff. Foreign correspondent and author Anna Fifield has been appointed editor of The Dominion Post and Stuff’s Wellington newsroom. Currently the Beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post, Fifield was raised in Hastings and started her journalism career with the Rotorua Daily Post and the New Zealand Press Association. Over Fifield’s two-decade career as a foreign correspondent with the Washington Post and the Financial Times, she has covered major stories including North Korea's first nuclear test, the disputed Iranian presidential election in 2009, and the 2012 United States presidential election. Previously the Tokyo bureau chief for the Washington Post, Fifeld was also a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University and in 2018 won Stanford University's Shorenstein Prize for excellence in reporting on Asia.

Source: Stuff July 30, 2020 21:02 UTC