Julia Ioffe is an American journalist known for covering national security and foreign policy topics for The Atlantic. The Columbia Journalism Review, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker also published her writings. She attended Princeton University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in Soviet history. She began her career as a fact-checker for The New Yorker before moving to Colombia Journalism School's Knight Foundation Case Studies initiative. She joined The Atlantic in early 2017.
She was born in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to the United States at the age of 7. She won a Fullbright Scholarship which allowed her to return to Russia and work as a Moscow correspondent for The New Yorker and Foreign Policy. Her 2013 story about whooping cough was The New Republic's most-read story of the year.
