Janine Zacharia

Janine Sherri Zacharia is an American journalist. She was appointed as the Middle East correspondent for the Washington Post in December 2009. She previously worked as a reporter for Reuters in Israel, the Washington bureau chief for The Jerusalem Post and a diplomatic reporter for Bloomberg News. She also writes for The New Republic and makes regular appearances on MSNBC and PBS's Washington Week. She graduated from Middlebury College in 1995 and is a native of Long Island, NY. She is married to Jeremy Bailenson, a Stanford University associate professor of communications. Recent coverage of the Gaza blockade and flotilla raid have made some of her work, and the work of other journalists, the target of right-wing activists. Leo...