Anna Savchenko

Criminal Justice Reporter
Anna Savchenko is a Ukrainian-Cypriot reporter on WBEZ’s criminal justice team.

Previously, she covered Chicago’s colleges and universities when she joined the station in 2021 as a Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism fellow. Anna earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and master’s in English from Azusa Pacific University in southern California. At Azusa Pacific, she served as editor-in-chief of the student magazine.


She speaks Russian, Greek and is learning Ukrainian.

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