Joanna Slater

National correspondent

Education: Smith College, BA ; Columbia University, MA in International Affairs and MS in Journalism

Joanna Slater is a national correspondent for The Washington Post focusing on the Northeast. Previously she served as the paper's India bureau chief based in New Delhi. She is an award-winning foreign correspondent whose career includes assignments in the United States, Europe and Asia. She has reported from more than 20 countries. Prior to joining The Post, she worked at Canada's Globe & Mail and the Wall Street Journal. She was based in Asia for seven years, first in Hong Kong and then Mumbai. In 2014-5, she was posted in Berlin, where she covered Europe’s refugee crisis. Slater began her
Latest from Joanna Slater

U.S. citizen believed held hostage in Gaza was killed on Oct. 7, IDF says

Omer Neutra, a U.S.-Israeli citizen believed held hostage by Hamas, was killed on Oct. 7, 2023, the Israeli military said Monday.

December 2, 2024
Orna Neutra, the mother of American hostage Omer Neutra, who was killed on Oct. 7, 2023, wears a T-shirt bearing his face during a news conference in New York in April.

For second time in 8 years, a loss for a woman presidential candidate

Donald Trump’s win means that the tradition of electing a man to the nation’s highest office remains unbroken after more than 200 years.

November 6, 2024

This purple swath of Maine could determine control of Congress

In an increasingly polarized country, Maine’s massive 2nd Congressional District — the largest east of the Mississippi — is a rare expanse of purple.

October 26, 2024
Susan Surabian, left, and Michelle Robbins canvass voters on the streets of Skowhegan, Maine, for the Harris campaign.

Hurricane Milton’s aftermath leaves at least 15 dead, homes damaged

The storm crashed across the breadth of Florida. flooding and flattening communities, but caused fewer deaths than authorities feared.

October 11, 2024
Linda Kling of Bradenton, Fla., stands in front of her damaged mobile home in Palma Sola Shores on Thursday.

Hurricane Milton hits Florida coast behind tornadoes, heavy rains

Milton barreled ashore at 8:30 p.m. in Siesta Key just south of Tampa Bay as a Category 3 storm, as millions in the state sought refuge

October 9, 2024
A woman cries Wednesday after seeing the damage caused by a passing tornado as Hurricane Milton approached Fort Myers, Fla.

Four Americans are still held hostage by Hamas a year after Oct. 7 attack

As the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel approaches, a deal to release the hostages appears remote.

October 5, 2024
Clockwise from top left: Edan Alexander, Sagui Dekel-Chen, Omer Neutra and Keith Siegel are four Americans who have been held hostage by Hamas since Oct. 7, 2023. (Family photos)

Eric Adams rose to lead New York. Now a corruption scandal could end it all.

The allegations mark a stunning blow for a politician who rose from humble roots in Brooklyn to become only the second Black man to serve as New York’s mayor.

September 26, 2024
New York Mayor Eric Adams talks to reporters outside his official residence, Gracie Mansion, in New York on Thursday after he was charged with bribery, wire fraud and seeking illegal campaign donations.

A journey from N.C. to Ukraine to suspect in apparent assassination attempt

Ryan Routh lived a life of quirky anonymity, until a seeming unraveling allegedly put him within striking distance of former president Donald Trump.

September 18, 2024
FBI officers investigate an area alongside the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Tuesday. Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said Secret Service agents found Ryan W. Routh, who is identified as the suspect who was arrested after allegedly pointing a rifle with a scope into the club as Donald Trump was on the course.

American family’s quest to save son held captive in Gaza ends in heartbreak

The parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a dual Israeli and American citizen, had become public faces of the ordeal of the hostages taken by Hamas. Other American families of hostages fear time is running out for their loved ones.

September 1, 2024
Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg, the parents of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 21.

Protests escalate in Israel after 6 hostages’ bodies are recovered in Gaza

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli American, and five others Hamas took hostage on Oct. 7 were killed “shortly before” being found, the Israel Defense Forces said.

September 1, 2024
Undated portraits provided Sunday by the Hostages Families Forum Headquarters show, from top left: Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov and Carmel Gat; and from bottom left: Ori Danino, Eden Yerushalmi and Hersh Goldberg-Polin. The Israeli military said it found their bodies in a tunnel in southern Gaza.