About

Jessica Koscielniak is an award-winning visual journalist and leader based in Washington, DC. Currently, she is a Senior Video Producer for Breaking News and Enterprise on the National and Local desks at The Washington Post. She is currently serving as President of the White House News Photographer Association.

Prior to that, Senior Producer and Staff Photographer at USA Today, where she covered the War in Ukraine, military suicide, and the COVID-19 pandemic. She worked on the National High-Impact Video Team at McClatchy where she pitched, developed, produced and edited in-depth documentary-style packages and series. In 2012, she worked as a multimedia journalist at Chicago Sun-Times, where her work focused on documenting the gun violence epidemic in Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods.

Koscielniak originates from Northwest Indiana and has always had a passion for covering news and issue-related stories in her backyard.

Most recently her work has been recognized by Photography of the Year International, Best of Photojournalism, Lone Star Regional EMMYs, RTDNA’s Edward R. Murrow, Online Journalism, Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi, The Webbys and the White House News Photographer's Association,

She is married to photographer, Tasos Katopodis.

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