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Portrait of Megan Specia

Megan Specia

My work covers a wide range of topics across the region, with a focus on how policy impacts people and society. I have traveled across the United Kingdom reporting on issues ranging from national identity to health care to immigration to the impact of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. I have also reported extensively in Ireland, where I lived for several years, on the major moments shaping that country. I look for local stories with international resonance.

Since early 2022, I have also been a part of our coverage of the war in Ukraine, where I have traveled across the country to tell the story of the conflict. I have covered deadly airstrikes in Kyiv, Ukraine, the devastation in once-occupied cities, the destruction of the country’s infrastructure and the impact of the war on society, with a focus on the most vulnerable.

I have worked at The Times since 2016 covering major stories around the world. Before moving to London in 2019, I covered breaking international news from New York, where I also spent a year working on award-winning storytelling with the video department.

I was born and raised in New Jersey, and graduated with a journalism degree from the University of New Hampshire, before beginning my journalism career in Ireland. I have reported from Europe, Asia, Africa and the U.S. during my years as a journalist. I completed a master’s degree in international affairs at King’s College in London in 2022.

I aim for my stories to be accurate and empathetic and to shine a light on issues, people and places that aren’t always visible. The region I cover is full of diverse communities, and my work tries to reflect that diversity. As a Times journalist I hold myself to the standards outlined in The Times’s Ethical Journalism handbook.

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