Ellie Silverman is joining The Washington Post to cover protests and general assignments in Metro.
She starts next month.
Silverman joins from The Philadelphia Inquirer where she was a breaking news and general assignment reporter. Before that, she held the post of retail reporter.
Silverman was previously with The Post from 2017 to 2018 as a metro reporting intern. She was also a special projects editor at The Diamondback.
Silverman has also interned at The Hill, The Seattle Times, Capital-Gazette newspapers and McClatchy Newspapers.
Silverman is a B.A. in journalism from University of Maryland College Park.