Margherita Stancati is a correspondent covering Southern Europe and based in Rome. Before that, Margherita was in the Middle East, reporting mostly on Saudi Arabia. She was previously based in Afghanistan and India for the paper. She was part of a reporting team whose coverage of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist in international reporting. Her work was also a runner-up in SOPA’s award for excellence in reporting on women’s issues.