Bio


Janine Zacharia has reported on Israel, the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy for close to two decades including stints as Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the Washington Post, chief diplomatic correspondent for Bloomberg News, Washington bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post, and Jerusalem correspondent for Reuters. She appears regularly on cable news shows and radio programs as a Middle East analyst and is currently a visiting lecturer in the Department of Communication at Stanford University.

Academic Appointments


  • Advanced Lecturer, Communication

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations


  • member, Council on Foreign Relations (2013 - Present)

Current Research and Scholarly Interests


Interested in new forms of foreign correspondence, how stories go viral, the intersection between technology/social media and national security. Middle East/Israel is my main area of reporting expertise.

Stanford Advisees



  • Sophia Siegel
  • Master's Program Advisor
    Hannah Bensen, Mengyu Dong