Jamila Trindle is a versatile, award-winning reporter who has covered the nexus between the financial industry and Washington for the past three years for the Wall Street Journal. Before moving back to the U.S. to cover the post-crisis economy for PBS, she was a freelance reporter in China, Indonesia and Turkey for NPR, Marketplace, the Guardian and others. She moved to China to work inside a Chinese television station in Shanghai on a yearlong fellowship from the Luce Foundation, and stayed on to cover the Sichuan earthquake, the Beijing Olympics, underground hip-hop and the fledgling salami industry.  In the normal course of reporting she has been stopped by authorities in several countries, but only ever detained in New Jersey.
Jamila Trindle is a versatile, award-winning reporter who has covered the nexus between the financial industry and Washington for the past three years for the Wall Street Journal. Before moving back to the U.S. to cover the post-crisis economy for PBS, she was a freelance reporter in China, Indonesia and Turkey for NPR, Marketplace, the Guardian and others. She moved to China to work inside a Chinese television station in Shanghai on a yearlong fellowship from the Luce Foundation, and stayed on to cover the Sichuan earthquake, the Beijing Olympics, underground hip-hop and the fledgling salami industry. In the normal course of reporting she has been stopped by authorities in several countries, but only ever detained in New Jersey.

Jamila Trindle

Jamila Trindle is a senior reporter who covers finance, economics and business where they intersect with national security and foreign policy. Her beat spans everything from the economic underpinnings of conflict to sanctions, corruption and terror finance. Before coming to Foreign Policy magazine, Jamila reported for the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, covering financial regulation and economics. She has also worked as a foreign correspondent in China, Indonesia and Turkey as a freelancer for NPR, Marketplace, The Guardian and others. She moved back to the U.S. to cover the post-crisis economy for PBS in 2009.
Articles by Jamila Trindle
Refugees gather to watch the arrival of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres at IFO-2 complex of the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp on May 8, 2015. Dadaab refugee camp currently houses some 350,000 people and for more than 20 years has been home to generations of Somalis who have fled their homeland wracked by conflicts. But Kenya's government asked the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) to close the camp after an attack on Kenyas Garissa University by Somalia-based Al-Shabaab gunmen in April, whom are suspected to have planned and launched their attack from the camp.  AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA        (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)
Refugees gather to watch the arrival of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres at IFO-2 complex of the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp on May 8, 2015. Dadaab refugee camp currently houses some 350,000 people and for more than 20 years has been home to generations of Somalis who have fled their homeland wracked by conflicts. But Kenya's government asked the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) to close the camp after an attack on Kenyas Garissa University by Somalia-based Al-Shabaab gunmen in April, whom are suspected to have planned and launched their attack from the camp. AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)
An elderly woman holds her pension received in Russian ruble notes in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on April 1, 2015. The year-long conflict in east Ukraine has closed businesses across the industrial heartland, ramping up unemployment, crippling its financial sector and leaving it ever more reliant on Moscow.    AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFF        (Photo credit should read DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images)
An elderly woman holds her pension received in Russian ruble notes in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on April 1, 2015. The year-long conflict in east Ukraine has closed businesses across the industrial heartland, ramping up unemployment, crippling its financial sector and leaving it ever more reliant on Moscow. AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFF (Photo credit should read DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 29:  Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo (C) speaks to a joint meeting of the US Congress while flanked by Vice President Joseph Biden (L) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) (R) in the House chamber of the US Capitol April 29, 2015 in Washington, DC.The Prime Minister and his wife are on an official visit to Washington.  (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 29: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo (C) speaks to a joint meeting of the US Congress while flanked by Vice President Joseph Biden (L) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) (R) in the House chamber of the US Capitol April 29, 2015 in Washington, DC.The Prime Minister and his wife are on an official visit to Washington. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis waits for the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) family photo at the IMF/WB Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, on April 18, 2015.    AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM        (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis waits for the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) family photo at the IMF/WB Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, on April 18, 2015. AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
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