Anna Fifield

Anna Fifield, a New Zealand journalist and foreign affairs analyst, writes a newsletter on New Zealand’s role in global affairs. She spent more than 20 years as a foreign correspondent for the Washington Post and Financial Times, reporting from Asia, the Middle East, and the United States, and later served as the Washington Post’s Asia-Pacific editor. From 2020 to 2022, she was editor of the Dominion Post in Wellington, New Zealand. Fifield was a Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard University, where she studied political change in closed societies, and she won Stanford University’s Shorenstein Prize for excellence in reporting on Asia. Her book on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, The Great Successor, has been translated into 24 languages.