Meg Kelly

Washington, D.C.

Video reporter, Visual Forensics

Education: Columbia University, Barnard College, BA, Architecture

Meg Kelly is a video reporter for The Washington Post's Visual Forensics team. Previously, she produced video and reported for The Post's Fact Checker and covered the 2016 election for NPR as a visual producer. As Fulbright Scholar in India, she produced a multi-media exhibition and oral history project that explored the structure of Dharavi's informal political and economic sectors. She has also reported on local politics, development and urban agriculture in New York City.
Latest from Meg Kelly

Settlers killed a Palestinian teen. Israeli forces didn’t stop it.

A review of videos from the deadliest settler attack in the West Bank since the war began shows how increasingly violent tactics have gone unpunished.

January 9, 2024

Israel has waged one of this century’s most destructive wars in Gaza

The damage in Gaza has outpaced other recent conflicts, evidence shows. Israel has dropped some of the largest bombs commonly used today near hospitals.

December 23, 2023

Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus in Lebanon attack

An analysis of shell fragments shows Israel used U.S.-made white phosphorus munitions in an attack that a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime.

December 11, 2023

How Hamas exploited Israel’s reliance on tech to breach barrier on Oct. 7

This Post video shows how Hamas fighters neutralized long-range cameras, sophisticated sensors and remote-control weapons.

November 17, 2023

How Israel built its case to raid Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital

For weeks, Israel has been building the case that al-Shifa hospital was the “beating heart” of Hamas’s operations in northern Gaza. Early Wednesday, troops moved in.

November 15, 2023

Israel’s hunt for Hamas puts Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital under siege

Israel’s military has sounded a steady drumbeat of accusations that Gaza’s largest hospital sits atop a headquarters for Hamas.

November 10, 2023

Israel launches deadly strike on ambulance outside hospital in Gaza

The strike was the latest in a series of attacks on health infrastructure in Gaza, where Israeli forces are engaged in a large-scale offensive to destroy Hamas.

November 4, 2023

Israeli strikes on Gaza refugee camp offer glimpse of war’s destruction

The strikes on Jabalya show the toll of Israel’s relentless air war and the grave dangers facing civilians as ground forces move deeper into the enclave.

November 1, 2023

Mapping Israel’s ground assault into Gaza

The Washington Post geolocated videos, photos and satellite images to understand where Israeli’s ground assault has reached within Gaza.

October 31, 2023

A barrage and a midair explosion: What visual evidence shows about the Gaza hospital blast

Videos analyzed by The Washington Post reveal that rockets were launched from Gaza in the direction of al-Ahli Hospital 44 seconds before an explosion there.

October 26, 2023