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Washington Post promotes Samuels to senior producer of visual forensics

Elyse Samuels

Elyse Samuels, interim senior producer of visual forensics has been appointed senior producer of visual forensics at The Washington Post. As per the Post:

“In this role, Elyse will partner with executive producer Nadine Ajaka to lead our newly expanded team of open-source video and graphics reporters. Elyse brings to the role a keen ability to understand how visuals can help answer questions about today’s most urgent stories.”

Samuels is a founding member of the visual forensics team. She joined the Video department in 2016 as a Facebook Live producer, and then switched t0 the breaking news team as a video verification editor.

She won a Webby Award for developing the Post’s Guide to Manipulated Video.

Samuels interned at USA Today and NBC News.

Samuels holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

Be sure to congratulate Samuels on Twitter.

Mariam Ahmed

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