Lizzie Johnson
Washington, D.C.
Enterprise Reporter
Education: University of Missouri at Columbia, BA in Journalism, BA in Political Science
Lizzie Johnson is an investigative reporter on The Washington Post's narrative accountability team. Previously, she was a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle. Johnson is a three-time finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Her work has been featured by the Columbia Journalism Review, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and Harvard University’s Nieman Storyboard. Her in-depth coverage of California's wildfire crisis led to her first book, 'Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire," which is being developed as a feature film. She has reported