Elyse Samuels is the Senior Producer of The Washington Post’s Visual Forensics team. She is a founding reporter on the team, which launched in the summer of 2020. Earlier this year, she shared in The Post’s Pulitzer Prize for her work reconstructing the<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.washingtonpost.com_investigations_2021_01_16_video-2Dtimeline-2Dcapitol-2Dsiege_-3Fitid-3Dlk-5Finline-5Fmanual-5F5&d=DwMF-g&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=744DwruVwXbQdq-eP8x8CkBIe3vAx5myMsUBDTKKeH8&m=fG_i4A_4dheicOtp5BpNpwwYKhab2cN2Sq7cs5lLF1GTrj941eKOVIqZhKb5wvp5&s=iiTuFthkLc0pmErgJeTPYUG51O1CN8HxXkCnn4goN94&e="> Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol</a>. Elyse joined The Post’s Video department in 2016 where she has worked as a Facebook Live producer, breaking news video editor, and the team’s first verification video editor.
