National Correspondent at The Washington Post
lawrence, kansas, united states
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Claim your profileAnnie Gowen covers rural America and the Midwest for The Washington Post's National desk. She was the India bureau chief from 2013 to 2018. She spent 2023 reporting from India and Pakistan for the award-winning series "The Human Limit," which examined the health impacts of climate change. Her long-form journalism has been honored as part of the Best American Newspaper Narratives, including a series on farm families hit by President Donald Trump's trade war. She was also part of a team whose coverage of the mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso won a Scripps Howard award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News in 2020. As The Post’s India bureau chief, she covered India, other South Asian nations and Myanmar. She twice won the Daniel Pearl Award for reporting on South Asia, and has reported for The Post from conflict zones in Ukraine, Iraq and Afghanistan. She serves on the board of the William Allen White Foundation.





