Ty McCormick


Ty McCormick is an American foreign correspondent and magazine editor. He is deputy web editor of Foreign Affairs, the magazine published by the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2015 to 2018, he was the Africa editor at Foreign Policy magazine. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, New Republic, and National Geographic.

Career

He began his career as a foreign correspondent in Cairo, where he covered the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and its aftermath. He joined the editorial staff of Foreign Policy in 2012 and was appointed Africa editor in 2015. He has reported from more than a dozen countries in Africa and the Middle East, including Egypt, Lebanon, Somalia, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Central African Republic, Mali, Niger, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
His October 2017 cover story in Foreign Policy, "Highway Through Hell," was part of a five-part series supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting that won a 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. He received the 2016 Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Bronze Prize for his reporting on war crimes in the Central African Republic, "some witnessed and photographed courageously by the reporter," according to the citation from the U.N. Correspondents Association. He was a finalist for the 2015 Kurt Schork Award for his reporting on the civil war in South Sudan.
He received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a master's degree from the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar. He received a second master's degree from the Queen's University Belfast as a George J. Mitchell Scholar.

Personal

He married attorney and feminist author Jill Filipovic in 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya.