White House News Photographers Association, Washington, DC 
The Northern Short Course in Photojournalism: Lecture Series
Whitney Shefte, an award-winning video journalist at The Washington Post, pitches, researches, shoots, reports, edits and produces multimedia stories for the Post’s digital and print platforms. She has documented everything from AIDS in D.C. to traumatic brain injury in the military to life in India.
She is experienced with multiple platforms including video, photography, audio and writing. Whitney serves as an officer and on the video and multimedia committees for the White House News Photographers Association and is Mentorship Chair for the non-profit organization Women Photojournalists of Washington. A three-time Emmy Award nominee, Whitney received a Peabody Award in 2011 for her project Coming home a different person on traumatic brain injury. She and a team of other Post journalists were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for the same project in 2011. Whitney is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication where she concentrated in photojournalism.
