Hannah Allam
National Security Reporter Focusing on Extremism and Domestic Terrorism, The Washington Post
2022
Hannah Allam writes about extremism, terrorism and national security for The Washington Post. She joined The Post in 2021 from NPR, where she also covered violent extremism. As a longtime foreign correspondent for McClatchy, Allam served as bureau chief in Baghdad during the Iraq War and in Cairo during the Arab Spring rebellions. She returned to the United States in 2012 and has reported extensively on U.S. foreign policy, race and religion, and the mainstreaming of extremist ideologies. Allam was part of a Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. She serves on the board of the International Women’s Media Foundation, or IWMF, which supports and trains women journalists around the world.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
