Yeganeh Torbati (Farsi: يگانه تُربَتی) is a reporter at the Washington, DC bureau of Thomson Reuters where she covers immigration. Yeganeh Torbati is also a contributor to PBS television programs Washington Week and PBS NewsHour.

Following a Rosenbaum Reporting Internship at the Washington, D.C. bureau of The New York Times, in 2010 Torbati joined the staff of The Baltimore Sun as a breaking news and general assignment reporter. In 2011, Torbati was hired by Thomson Reuters as a graduate trainee at its London bureau, and from 2012 to 2013 was based in Dubai, where she reported on Iran and helped spearhead coverage of the 2013 Iranian presidential campaign.

In 2013, Torbati, along with her Reuters colleagues Steve Stecklow and Babak Dehghanpisheh, uncovered a $95 billion financial conglomerate personally controlled by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; the ensuing investigative series, “Assets of the Ayatollah,” won them several awards, including the Gerald Loeb Award, the Overseas Press Club Malcolm Forbes Award, the European Press Prize in Investigative Reporting, the SABEW Best in Business International Investigative Award, and the Deadline Club’s Daniel Pearl Award for Investigative Reporting.

Torbati relocated to Reuters’ Washington, DC bureau in 2015 to cover United States foreign policy. In 2017, she and her Reuters colleagues Joel Schechtman, Matt Spetalnick, Lesley Wroughton, and Patricia Zengerle won the National Press Club‘s Edwin M. Hood Diplomatic Award for their investigative series on a prisoner exchange between the Obama administration and the Islamic Republic of Iran. ^[1]

Since late 2017, Torbati’s coverage has focused on United States immigration policy.

Torbati attended Norman North High School in Norman, Oklahoma and graduated from Yale University in 2010 with a BA in Political Science and Modern Middle East Studies.