Lara Jakes Biography
Lara Jakes is a journalist from the United States. She is currently the diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times’ Washington office. Jakes is currently The New York Times’ diplomatic correspondent.
Lara Jakes Age
Jake was born on July 8, 1973, in the United States of America. She is 50 years old as of July 2023.
Lara Jakes Education
Jakes earned a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 1995.
Lara Jakes Husband
Jakes is happily married to her husband Col. Mike Jason (U.S. Army, Retired.), and they have 1 daughter.. They live in Alexandria, Virginia.
Lara Jakes Books
Jakes contributed research to the book The American Pope (Vatican Press, 2016).[8] The book compiles Pope Francis’s three most important addresses delivered during his 2015 tour to Cuba and the United States.[9] Co-author Paolo Messa approached Jakes about writing about Pope Francis’ visit to Washington. Her speech focused on the significance of his message and the influence of his visit on American leaders.[10] According to Jakes, Pope Francis evoked the memory of “Lincoln: freedom; Martin Luther King: freedom in diversity and non-exclusion; Dorothy Day: social justice and the rights of persons; and Thomas Merton: capacity for dialogue and openness to God” in his speech to the joint session of the Congress of the United States of America in Washington, D.C., on 2015.
Lara Jakes Career
Jakes is the New York Times’ diplomatic correspondent. She was previously the international policy editor of the Times’ Washington, D.C. bureau. Jakes worked as the deputy managing editor and later the managing editor for news at Foreign Policy magazine from 2017 to 2019. She co-wrote “The American Pope,” which was published in 2016 by the Vatican. She formerly worked for the Associated Press for almost 12 years, serving as Baghdad bureau chief and national security reporter. She formerly worked as a national correspondent for Hearst Newspapers and at the Times Union in Albany, New York. Jakes has considerable ground reporting experience in Iraq, covering insurgent attacks as well as military and diplomatic relations.
Her work has been focused on international security, with a particular emphasis on conflict reporting. Jakes has covered war and sectarian strife in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, the West Bank, and Northern Ireland, among other places. She was present in 2011 during the transition and drawdown of US troops. following nine years of conflict, staying in Iraq for a year following the withdrawal allowed her to report on the people and culture of the country. Jake reports that her understanding of Iraqi culture has altered as a result of the manner she has reported on the country. She underlined the obligation that news organizations have to cover how US actions affect people all across the world. Jakes called navigating difficult encounters while reporting on the Trump administration as “reporter job” in January 2020.
Lara Jakes’s Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.
