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Sarah Mervosh ’12

National Correspondent, The New York Times

MAJORS: PSYCHOLOGY AND ARABIC, JED MINOR

For much of the past year and a half, Sarah Mervosh ’12 has worked tirelessly to document coronavirus outbreaks, investigate government failures during the pandemic, and examine the complicated grief of the nation as a national correspondent for The New York Times.

Mervosh’s empathetic and informative reporting on the pandemic has taken her from rural West Texas, where the virus threatened to overwhelm an area with just one hospital for 12,000 square miles, to West Virginia, where nursing home residents celebrated their first day out of lockdown. In 2021, the staff of the Times won a Pulitzer Prize for public service for its reporting on the pandemic. Mervosh also contributed to coverage of 2020’s historic racial justice protests. In her own time, she also donated to Notre Dame scholarships for underrepresented students, and funds to support journalists of color and journalists affected by job losses and trauma during the pandemic. 

A psychology and Arabic major with a minor in journalism, ethics, and democracy, Mervosh got her start in journalism at Notre Dame, where she served as managing editor of The Observer. She worked for six years as a reporter at the Dallas Morning News before joining the Times in 2018. She is now looking forward to a new beat covering PreK-12 education in the United States. Mervosh and her husband, Alex Huth ’12, live in New York City.