About me
Jessica Donati covers foreign affairs for The Wall Street Journal in Washington DC, and has reported from over a dozen countries in the role. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022 for her reporting on Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban. She is the author of the book "Eagle Down: American Special Forces At the End of Afghanistan's War" (Published in 2021) which tells the heroic and tragic stories of the soldiers fighting to keep Afghanistan from collapse after most American troops left in 2015.
She joined the paper as the bureau chief in Kabul in 2015, and lived in Afghanistan for over four years. Previously, she worked for Reuters in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, covering both the conflicts in Libya and Afghanistan. She co-authored a series on the war in Libya that was chosen as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2012. She is also the recipient of a New York Press Club award for her reporting in Libya .
She is British-Italian, and grew up in Italy. She lives with her husband and son in Washington DC.