Lauren Giella is a Newsweek National reporter based in New York. Her focus is reporting on breaking and trending U.S. and international news. She has covered politics, policy, trials, elections and the war in Ukraine. Lauren joined Newsweek in 2021 and pioneered both the Fact-Checking and Live Blog teams where she worked in both long-form storytelling and breaking news.

She is a graduate of the University of Southern California. Lauren is passionate about all things television and comedy.