Whitney Shefte

Whitney Shefte is a Peabody, Murrow and Emmy Award-winning independent filmmaker and video journalist. She was a senior video journalist at The Washington Post for over 17 years. Whitney has documented the war in Ukraine, climate change in Greenland, the ongoing conflict in Western Sahara, press access issues in Pakistan, and myriad issues across the United States from politics to healthcare to immigration. In 2023, Whitney was awarded, along with the other women of the Washington Post who covered the war in Ukraine, with the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Courage in Journalism Award. She was named Multimedia Journalist of the Year in 2023 and 2019 by the White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA). Whitney was also a finalist for the Livingston Award in 2014 and her work was part of a military medicine package named as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. Whitney was also part of the team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in public service for coverage of the January 6 insurrection and its aftermath. She served as the president of WHNPA from 2015 until 2023. Whitney is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication where she concentrated in photojournalism. She lives in Washington, DC.

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