Elizabeth Weise
Author & Journalist
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.
BOOKS

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
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
