The Atlantic Hires Missy Ryan as Staff Writer

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30-04-2025

The Atlantic is announcing the hire of Missy Ryan as a staff writer, as part of a continued expansion of national security coverage. Missy has written about foreign policy, defense, and national security for more than a decade at The Washington Post, where she reported from dozens of countries, including Iraq, Ukraine, Libya, Lebanon, Yemen, and Afghanistan. She will join The Atlantic next month. Below is the full announcement from The Atlantic's editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg:
Dear everyone,
I'm happy to share the news that Missy Ryan will be joining The Atlantic next month as a staff writer, as part of the continued expansion of our national security coverage.
Missy, who comes to us from The Washington Post, is known as one of the best Pentagon reporters working today. She is authoritative, highly respected and a gifted and dogged reporter. For more than a decade, she has shaped The Post's coverage of both the Defense Department and the State Department. Missy has covered 10 secretaries of defense, reported from dozens of countries, chronicled America's counter-insurgency wars, broken news about enormous policy changes, and exposed the human toll of international conflict.
Before joining The Post, she spent nine years at Reuters. Her time there included assignments as a correspondent in Iraq, Mexico, Peru, and Argentina. Missy reported from the ground on major news developments, including the fall of the Qaddafi regime in Libya, drug wars and political upheaval in Latin America, and wars from Afghanistan to Ukraine.
Missy reports in both Spanish and Arabic and has studied Arabic in Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, Tunisia, and Iraq. Her honors include a New York Press Club award for political reporting and selection as an Inter-American Press Association fellow and a White House Fellow.
Please join me in welcoming her to The Atlantic.
Best wishes, Jeff
The Atlantic has announced a number of new hires since the start of the year, including managing editor Griff Witte; staff writers Tyler Austin Harper, Isaac Stanley-Becker, Nick Miroff, Ashley Parker, Michael Scherer, and Caity Weaver; senior editors Jenna Johnson and Dan Zak; and contributing writers Jonathan Lemire and Alex Reisner. Please reach out with any questions or requests.
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Article originally published at The Atlantic