Julia Ioffe is a Russian-born American journalist.
31 Facts About Julia Ioffe
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Julia Ioffe's articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Forbes, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Republic, Politico, and The Atlantic.
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Julia Ioffe is the Washington correspondent for the website Puck.
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Julia Ioffe was born in Moscow, to a Russian Jewish family.
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Julia Ioffe attended Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School from which she graduated in 2001.
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Julia Ioffe worked for the Columbia Journalism School's Knight Case Studies Initiative.
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In 2009, Julia Ioffe won a Fulbright Scholarship to work in Russia.
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Julia Ioffe spent three years in Moscow, from 2009 to 2012, working as a correspondent for The New Yorker and Foreign Policy.
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Julia Ioffe was a finalist for the Livingston Award for her 2011 profile of Alexei Navalny, then a lawyer and anti-corruption activist.
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Julia Ioffe covered protests and the political manoeuvring surrounding Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency, in her column "Kremlinology 2012," which was published in Foreign Policy.
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In 2012, Julia Ioffe returned to the US and became a senior editor for The New Republic in Washington, DC At The New Republic, Julia Ioffe wrote about American politics, including about a brewing civil war within the Republican Party.
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Julia Ioffe's 2013 profile of Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul was a finalist for the Livingston Award.
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Julia Ioffe covered the protests in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014.
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In 2013, Julia Ioffe wrote about contracting whooping cough, although she had been vaccinated against the disease in childhood.
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Julia Ioffe continued writing about Russia, including about the 2013 anti-gay laws and the Kremlin's ban on American adoptions of Russian children.
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In 2013, Julia Ioffe visited Moscow to document what happened to the opposition after the 2012 crackdown.
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Julia Ioffe predicted that Russia would invade Eastern Ukraine after its annexation of Crimea.
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Julia Ioffe traveled to Eastern Ukraine to cover the war in Donbas.
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In December 2014, Julia Ioffe was one of the many staff members at The New Republic to resign in protest against owner Chris Hughes's planned changes at the magazine.
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In January 2015, Julia Ioffe joined The New York Times Magazine as a contributor.
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In May 2016, Julia Ioffe became a contributing writer at Politico.
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On December 6,2016, The Atlantic announced that it was hiring Julia Ioffe to cover national security, foreign policy, and politics, with editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg describing her as "an indefatigable reporter, a gifted analyst, and an elegant writer".
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Julia Ioffe wrote about The Atlantic obtaining a 10-month correspondence between Donald Trump Jr.
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Julia Ioffe gained access to the entire e-mail correspondence between Trump's campaign chief Paul Manafort and Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with strong ties to the Kremlin.
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On October 29,2018, Julia Ioffe appeared on CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper, where she took part in a discussion about President Trump's rhetoric in the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.
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Julia Ioffe later apologized for the comment during the broadcast and on Twitter calling her comments "hyperbole".
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Julia Ioffe appears on national and cable channels as a Russia expert.
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Julia Ioffe alleged that, instead of letting her answer his questions, O'Donnell "interrupted and harangued and mansplained" to her.
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The next day, Julia Ioffe responded with a post on The New Republics website, "Dear Lawrence O'Donnell, Don't Mansplain to Me About Russia", in which she stated that she had spent several years reporting from Russia, was a native speaker, and had been invited and introduced as an expert on Russia.
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In November 2019, Julia Ioffe accused a writer on the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Twitter of being a Russian troll after noticing one of its stories about Hunter Biden used a symbol that she mistakenly identified as a Russian-style quotation mark.
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Julia Ioffe discussed Russia's invasion of Ukraine and said that Putin had miscalculated the Russian people's support for, and opposition to, the invasion.