Siobhán O'Grady Named Ukraine Bureau Chief
We're happy to announce that Siobhán O'Grady will become Ukraine bureau chief, effective immediately.
With this promotion, Siobhán will take over on-the-ground leadership of our team in Ukraine, a role that builds on the essential position she has occupied in our coverage of Ukraine since the days leading up to the all-out Russian invasion in February 2022. For the first 15 months of the war, she reported extensively from Ukraine on multi-week reporting trips while also serving as Cairo bureau chief. She moved to Ukraine in 2023 to become chief Ukraine correspondent.
With her skillful reporting, emotive writing, quick tempo, powerful work ethic and empathetic ear, Siobhán is a natural choice to take over in Ukraine, leading a team that will include a soon-to-be named Ukraine correspondent along with Ukraine-based reporter David L. Stern and a talented and dedicated team of local reporters. Siobhán was a member of the all-female team of Washington Post reporters honored in 2023 by the International Women's Foundation with the Courage in Journalism Award. Siobhán and the bureau's Anastacia Galouchka were also finalists for the Livingston Award in 2024 for their work from Ukraine.
The Post opened its bureau in Ukraine in May 2022, reflecting a long-term commitment to consistency and excellence in covering a conflict that is reshaping Europe and the world and has been a primary focus for the United States. The team works closely with other Post correspondents dedicated primarily to coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war from their bases in Berlin, Brussels, Riga, London and Washington, D.C., and on periodic reporting trips to Russia.
Before moving to Cairo, Siobhán was a foreign affairs writer in The Post's D.C. newsroom who also reported from Afghanistan, Cameroon and Lebanon. She is a graduate of Dickinson College, began her career at Foreign Policy, then spent 18 months freelancing across Africa from Nigeria, Togo, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana and elsewhere for the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic and other news outlets. She speaks fluent French, elementary Arabic and some Ukrainian.
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