Sarah Cahlan
Washington, D.C.
Visual Forensics
Education: University of California Berkeley, MA in Journalism ; George Washington University, BA in Archaeology and Environmental Studies
Sarah Cahlan is a video reporter and one of the founding members of the Visual Forensics team. Her work combines open source and forensic technologies with traditional journalism and documentary filmmaking. She shared in a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the January 6 insurrection and a Dupont for her coverage of the clearing of Lafayette Square. She started VF in 2020 after a year on the Fact Checker desk.
Before coming to The Post, she directed a short documentary about the historical inaccuracies of gender roles. As an NBC/NAHJ fellow, she reported, produced and wrote stories about sc