BIO

Sarah Cahlan is a Pulitzer Price winning investigative reporter and Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker. She is one of the founding members of the Visual Forensics team, where her work combines open source and forensic technologies with traditional journalism and documentary filmmaking. Her projects span formats, coverage areas, and languages. She adds clarity, creativity and vision to stories that reveal new findings and provide further context to complex events. She was nominated for an Emmy for her documentary with Frontline on Hamas's October 7 attack, shared in a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the January 6 insurrection, and won a Dupont for her coverage of the clearing of Lafayette Square. She started Visual Forensics in 2020 after a year on the Fact Checker desk where she produced ambitious video fact checks, stylized animated series, and the Webby award-winning guide to manipulated video. Before coming to the Post, she directed a student BAFTA shortlisted documentary at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, was an NAHJ fellow at NBC News, and produced documentaries at production companies in NYC.