Terrence McCoy
Washington, D.C.
Foreign correspondent
Education: University of Iowa, BA, political science and journalism; Columbia University, MA, international politics and journalism
Terrence McCoy is The Washington Post's Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief. He is the recipient of numerous national awards, including the 2016 George Polk Award for stories that showed how companies in an obscure industry made millions of dollars from exploitative deals with the poor and disabled. He served in the Peace Corps in Cambodia. He joined The Washington Post in 2014, and has been a staff writer on the local, national and foreign desks.