She has been a war correspondent for the Times from Iraq,[2] Lebanon,[3] and Russia,[4] including recent dispatches from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
[1] In 1995, she moved to Magadan, Russia, where she managed a business training center funded by the United States Agency for International Development.
[6] In 2000, she joined The New York Times as a Moscow correspondent; from 2003 to 2007 she was based in Iraq, where her coverage included 2005 sectarian cleansing.
[6] In March 2022, Tavernise joined Michael Barbaro as the second host of The New York Times podcast The Daily, following her dispatches from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
[5] In the 2003 Kurt Schork awards, Tavernise received an honorable mention for "her depth and human insight in covering Russia".