Andrea Januta is a Pulitzer Prize-winning freelance reporter based in Ukraine.
Andrea began reporting in Ukraine in 2023, covering everything from politics and the defense industry to bird watching and how the war has reshaped religious life. She speaks fluent Ukrainian and has reported from frontline regions as well as Ukraine’s western European border.
She spent her first two years in Ukraine as a reporter for the Kyiv Independent. Before that, she spent six years as an enterprise reporter for Reuters News, focused on investigations and data. She received her master's in journalism from Columbia and interned on the business desk at the Miami Herald.
Before studying journalism, she was a financial data analyst at Goldman Sachs. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's in math and economics from Yale University.
She and four Reuters colleagues were awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for a data-driven series investigating how the legal doctrine qualified immunity shields police who are accused of excessive force.
In 2018, she and three Reuters colleagues published a series of reports examining hazardous conditions in privatized U.S. military housing. The series resulted in three federal investigations, new legislation, public hearings before congress, widespread repairs to protect children, and an emergency $386 million program to inspect homes for hazards.