Whitney Shefte is a Peabody, Emmy, Murrow and Pictures of the Year International Award-winning video journalist at The Washington Post, where she has worked since 2006. She has documented everything from AIDS in D.C., to press issues in Pakistan, to the forgotten conflict in Western Sahara. Whitney and a team of other Post journalists were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for a military medicine package in 2011, and she was a finalist for the Livingston Award in 2015. Whitney also teaches video journalism at Georgetown University and is president of the White House News Photographers Association. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where she concentrated in photojournalism. Follow her on twitter @whitneyshefte and see her work at vimeo.com/channels/whitney.
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Whitney Shefte, CPOY Multimedia Judge
Whitney Shefte, Award-winning video journalist at The Washington Post, talks about her interests in social issues and telling stories to impact the world.