Scott Johnson is currently the Violence Reporting Fellow for the Oakland Tribune, an investigative reporting position funded by the California Endowment. He previously worked for the past twelve years as a foreign correspondent for Newsweek, and was chief of the magazine’s Africa Bureau from 2007 until its close at the end of 2009. He spent most of the preceding decade reporting from the Middle East, covering wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and in Mexico, covering politics and the economy all over Latin America. He was Newsweek’s Baghdad bureau chief for two years during the height of the insurgency, from 2005 to 2007.