Julia Ioffe

Julia Ioffe
Born	Moscow, USSR
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University (BA, 2005)
Occupation	Journalist

Julia Ioffe is an American journalist who covers national security and foreign policy topics for The Atlantic. Her writing has previously appeared in The Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Forbes, The New Republic, Politico, and Russia!

Ioffe was born in Moscow and her family immigrated to the United States in 1990 when Ioffe was 7; they were legal immigrants who according to Ioffe were "fleeing anti-Semitism" in the Soviet Union due to being of Jewish descent. They settled in Columbia, Maryland. Ioffe attended Princeton University and earned an undergraduate degree, with a major in history, specializing in Soviet history.

Ioffe began her career as a factchecker for The New Yorker and moved to Columbia Journalism School's Knight Foundation Case Studies Initiative. She later won a Fulbright Scholarship to return to Russia and worked as the Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker and Foreign Policy. In 2012, she became a senior editor for The New Republic in Washington D.C.

Ioffe's work is often critical of Russian president Vladimir Putin and Moscow ex-mayor Yuri Luzhkov. She has written of receiving angry emails and letters from Russians upset over her coverage of the country. She has also written about the Russian state-funded news network RT, which she has described as a Kremlin mouthpiece.

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