Announcement from Foreign Editor Doug Jehl, Deputy Foreign Editor Jennifer Amur and Europe Editor Marisa Bellack:
We are thrilled to announce that Steve Hendrix will become London bureau chief, a position that plays a critical role in our coverage of the intersection of Washington and the world.
A beautiful writer, deft reporter and generous colleague, Steve embodies exactly the qualities we sought for the high-profile London job. For the past five years, he has served as Jerusalem bureau chief, excelling in the risky and emotionally exhausting task of covering one of the world’s most polarizing and deadly conflicts. During a period when the Middle East seemed quiet, before the Oct. 7 attacks, Steve spent many months covering the war in Ukraine, a role that also drew on his courage, agility, judgment and compassion.
In moving to London as bureau chief, Steve will succeed the remarkable William Booth, who has chronicled Britain’s joys and travails since 2017 with grace, humor and an inimitable style through Brexit, multiple elections, a succession of prime ministers, the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch, and the coronation, in King Charles III, of a successor who had waited 70 years to claim the throne.
