Whitney Leaming is a Senior Producer of Digital Video & Strategy at PBS FRONTLINE, where she leads the development of original digital video journalism and works to bring FRONTLINE’s investigative reporting to new audiences across social and digital platforms. Her work focuses on finding new ways to tell ambitious, deeply reported stories — from short-form, reporter-driven journalism to platform-native video and emerging storytelling formats.
Before joining FRONTLINE, Whitney spent more than a decade at The Washington Post, most recently as a Senior Producer leading teams of visual journalists producing investigative, enterprise and breaking news coverage. A key focus of her work was helping The Post reach younger and off-platform audiences, turning audience insights into new storytelling approaches and developing video strategies designed for how people increasingly discover and consume news.
Her leadership is grounded in more than 15 years of field reporting. Whitney has reported from around the world, covering the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Ebola, Zika and COVID-19 outbreaks, natural disasters, civil unrest across the United States, both impeachment trials of Donald J. Trump and the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Her reporting on life in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria was shown in Congress during debates over humanitarian aid.
Whitney is a five-time Emmy nominee, a four-time Edward R. Murrow Award winner and a member of three Pulitzer Prize-winning teams. Her work is driven by the belief that rigorous journalism can also be innovative, accessible and built for the way audiences actually consume news — and that strong teams and thoughtful experimentation are essential to getting it there.
Contact:
whitney.leaming@gmail.com
317-446-6002