Elizabeth Weise

Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Weise was most recently a national correspondent with USA TODAY, after working as a newswoman with the Associated Press and a reporter with KUOW, the National Public Radio affiliate in Seattle.

During her years as a reporter, she covered climate change, the energy transition, development of the COVID-19 vaccine, shootings, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and tsunamis.

She continues to write and edit for the Glen Park News, her neighborhood San Francisco newspaper.

She has also written or edited three books; on Mandarin immersion, feminism and cyberspace.

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BOOKS


Photo of three books by Elizabeth Weise

A Parent’s Guide to Mandarin Immersion
Chenery Street Press · 2014

Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace
Seal Press · 1996

Closer to Home
Seal Press · 1993

SELECTED JOURNALISM


Clean energy bans skyrocket under Trump, USA TODAY analysis finds

USA TODAY · 2026

It’s getting harder to build clean energy in the U.S.

USA TODAY · 2026

Can you read cursive? It’s a superpower the National Archives is looking for.

USA TODAY · 2025

Fighting fire with fire: Controlled buns essential as wildfires intensify

USA TODAY · 2022

Speed limits in the ocean? Massive ships are killing endangered whales each year

USA TODAY · 2022

Role-playing, planning for earthquakes, mass training: US health care centers prep for arrival of COVID-19 vaccine

USA TODAY · 2020

The long, hard process of identifying the dead in California’s deadliest wildfire

USA TODAY · 2018

What to do when you are covering a tsunami (or other foreign disaster)

USA TODAY · 2011

Deaf-Blind People Make Seattle into a safe haven

Associated Press · 1992