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Biography
Anna Fifield (born 14 March 1976) is Tokyo Bureau Chief for The Washington Post, where she focuses her attention on news and issues of Japan and North Korea and South Korea.
Previously, she worked at Financial Times for 13 years, mainly as a foreign correspondent. She was US Political Correspondent in Washington DC between 2009 and 2013, Middle East correspondent in Beirut and Tehran, and Korea Correspondent in Seoul. She has reported from more than 20 countries, including Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya and North Korea. She was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism (August 2013 through May 2014) at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There, she studied how change happens in closed societies.
Currently she is covering the story of deceased University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, who was recently released from imprisonment in North Korea through diplomatic efforts by the Department of State in the Trump Administration.
Education
- 2013–2014 – Harvard University, Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism
- 1997 – University of Canterbury, Post-graduate Diploma, Journalism
- 1994–1996 – Victoria University of Wellington, Bachelor of Arts, English language and literature
Select publications
- Fifield, Anna. China and US agree non-binding climate plan – Financial Times, 10 July 2013.
- Fifield, Anna, Japan's Leader Stops Short of WWII Apology, Washington Post, 14 August 2015. (with 1:45 embedded video)
- Anna Fifield, S. Koreans Make Big Sacrifices to Study Overseas, (paper presented at the annual meeting for the Association for Asian Studies, ... 1996); Chang-sik Shin and Ian Shaw, “Social Policy in South Korea: Cultural and Structural Factors in the Emergence of Welfare" First published: 23 June 2003. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9515.00343
- -Reprinted in: Los Angeles Times, 16 January 2006, Josh C. H. Lin (El Monte, CA: Pacific Asian Press, 1998), 95–112. in Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today, Volume 1, by Edith Wen-Chu Chen.
- -Reprinted in: Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today, co-edited by Edith Wen-Chu Chen and Grace J. Yoo, 2010. Social Science.