Anna Fifield

Anna Fifield is the Asia-Pacific editor for The Washington Post. She was previously The Post's bureau chief in Beijing and Tokyo, and before that was a correspondent for the Financial Times for 13 years, with postings in Seoul, Tehran, Beirut and Washington, D.C.
During the 2013-2014 academic year, she was a Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard University, and was awarded Stanford University's Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center  award for excellence in coverage of the Asia-Pacific region in 2018. She is the author of "The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un."
After returning home to Aotearoa New Zealand at the end of 2020, she edited the Dominion Post, the capital city's newspaper, for two years. She still lives in Wellington.