Adam Entous joins The New York Times as an investigative reporter

Adam Entous

We’re very happy to tell you that Adam Entous, who has covered national security, foreign policy and the intelligence agencies for more than a decade, is joining The Times as an investigative reporter.

Adam has been a staff writer for the past four years at The New Yorker, where he wrote about the secret history of Israel’s relationships in the Gulf, the diplomatic failure in Afghanistan, Havana Syndrome, and assassinations in Damascus and Baghdad. He also profiled Hunter Biden and Fiona Hill. His final New Yorker story is in last week’s issue, reporting on secrets about President Biden’s family.

Before The New Yorker, Adam worked at The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. In 2018, he shared a Pulitzer Prize and a special Polk Award for stories about Russian interference in the 2016 election. A year earlier, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for a story about a diplomat’s professional ruin after years of service to her country. In addition to covering U.S. intelligence agencies, Adam was a foreign correspondent based in Jerusalem for four years and covered the Bush White House for five.

Adam was born in Montreal, Canada, grew up in Los Angeles and attended the University of California, Irvine, where he got his start in journalism working at the school newspaper and as a campus correspondent for The Times. He later graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

He starts today, please welcome him!