Evan Hill is an investigative reporter at The Washington Post focused on open-source and visual forensic techniques. He joined The Post from the New York Times in 2023 and was previously a reporter on The Times's Visual Investigations team, where he shared in three Pulitzer Prizes.

Hill was a lead reporter on an investigation that proved the United States killed 10 civilians in Kabul in the final drone strike of the 20-year war in Afghanistan. The investigation prompted the Defense Department to admit its error and offer compensation and relocation to the family and won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. He was also a lead reporter on an investigation that proved Russia repeatedly bombed hospitals in rebel-held Syria, which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting, and a reporter on an investigation proving the Russian unit responsible for atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.

Prior to joining The Times in 2019, he was a Beirut-based researcher with Human Rights Watch, where he investigated torture, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and other abuses in the Middle East. He previously worked as a features reporter for Al Jazeera America in New York City and as a Doha-based reporter for Al Jazeera English, where he covered the Arab Spring. He started his journalism career in San Francisco, where he he reported on the police, criminal courts and District Attorney Kamala Harris.

You can follow Evan on X (formerly Twitter) @evanhill.

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