Laura Winter, an award-winning journalist, is the Editor and Host of The DownLink Podcast, a Defense & Aerospace Report production. Focussed on the intersection of space, the space business, and defense, The DownLink Podcast is a 2023 Defense Media Award winner. Laura has lived in and reported from eight countries on three continents, including seven years in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China, and nine years in Afghanistan and Iraq. The very first beat she ever had was covering the city of La Cañada Flintridge, which included NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, for the Glendale News-Press.