#  Ellen Nakashima 

Neiman Fellow 

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[Ellen Nakashima](https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/ellen-nakashima/) is a reporter for The Washington Post covering intelligence and other national security matters. She has recently reported about the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran, the Pentagon’s series of lethal boat strikes in the Caribbean, and turmoil in the intelligence community. Over three decades with the Post, she has also written about cyber operations, foreign influence operations, and the impact of China’s rise on national security, and was a correspondent based in Jakarta. Nakashima has been a member of three Post teams that have won Pulitzer Prizes, for [coverage of the January 6 attacks](https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/washington-post-3) on the U.S. Capitol, an investigation of [Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election](https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staffs-new-york-times-and-washington-post), and reporting on the hidden scope of the [National Security Agency’s surveillance programs](https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/washington-post-1).

Nakashima is studying the impact of emerging technologies on U.S. national security and the ability of the U.S. to compete with China in this area.



 

 

 





 

 

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