Donna Foote is a freelance journalist who has spent most of her career at Newsweek Magazine where she covered a range of issues and personalities both here and abroad. While based in London she reported on the war in Afghanistan, Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto, tensions in the Middle East, the troubles in Northern Ireland, Princess Diana and the British Royal Family, and UK politics and culture. While Deputy Bureau Chief in Los Angeles, she covered the Rodney King riots and both the criminal and civil trials of OJ Simpson. She also wrote extensively on education, health, and justice issues.