Reshma Kirpalani is a fourteen-time Emmy Award-winning journalist and former Washington Post video journalist. She currently reports and produces radio stories for NPR and works as a freelance visual journalist. Her recent work includes breaking news reporting for The New York Times and serving as a director of photography on assignments for The Wall Street Journal and TIME.

At The Washington Post, Reshma reported, shot and produced investigative, enterprise and breaking-news stories across the country, with a focus on character-driven visual storytelling. Her work ranged from documenting the federal workforce under the second Trump administration to reporting from Maui after the 2023 wildfires and producing stories on immigration, politics and the environment. Her video work has drawn millions of views across the Post’s social platforms and won numerous awards.

Before joining the Post, Reshma was a national video journalist at McClatchy, collaborating with 30 newsrooms across the country on stories that influenced federal policy. During the pandemic, she gained extraordinary access to a Miami hospital’s COVID unit and directed a five-part Miami Herald documentary series that won two Suncoast Emmy Awards and screened at two film festivals.

Earlier, at the Austin American-Statesman, she won the newspaper’s first Lone Star Emmy Award. She began her career after earning a photojournalism degree from the University of Texas and working at ABCNews.com in New York.

She can be reached at reshmakirpalani1@gmail.com.