Vera Bergengruen is a national security reporter at The Wall Street Journal, based in Washington, D.C.

Prior to this, Bergengruen was a senior correspondent at Time, where she covered the intersection of national security, tech, and politics and reported cover stories from Ukraine, Argentina, and El Salvador. Previously, Bergengruen was a national security and investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News. Bergengruen began her journalism career at the Miami Herald and its parent company McClatchy, where she did stints covering everything from hurricanes to Congress, the U.S. Defense Department, and the White House.

Her work has won the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi and Dateline Awards and a New York Press Club Award. Bergengruen was also part of the team that worked on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Panama Papers investigation in 2017. Originally from Uruguay, she grew up in Chile, Germany, Mexico, and Miami.