Andrea Januta is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Ukraine-based reporter with the Kyiv Independent.
She previously worked 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.