WaPo faucets Kirpalani to function video journalist

The following excerpt was despatched out from The Washington Submit’s director of video Micah Gelman, govt producer of unique video David Bruns, senior enterprise video producers Angela M. Hill and Jessica Koscielniak:

Reshma Kirpalani

We’re excited to announce that Reshma Kirpalani is becoming a member of Video as a reporter based mostly in Florida. Reshma began working for The Submit as a contractor in December after impressing us with her protection of Hurricane Ian.

Reshma is a 14-time Emmy Award winner. Earlier than becoming a member of The Submit, she labored for 3 years on the nationwide video workforce at McClatchy, the place she collaborated with newsrooms throughout the nation to provide a spread of content material, from deeply reported investigative tales to breaking information.

Amongst her standout items was a five-part documentary that informed the story of well being care employees and their households on the top of the pandemic. The collection gained two Suncoast Emmy Awards and was screened at two movie festivals.

Earlier than McClatchy, Reshma labored for the Austin American-Statesman, the place she gained the paper’s first Lone Star Emmy Award for her portfolio of labor as a photographer.

Reshma has a bachelor’s diploma in communications from the College of Miami and a grasp’s diploma in journalism from the College of Texas.