Evan Hill is an investigative reporter at The Washington Post focused on open-source and visual forensic techniques and has shared in four Pulitzer Prizes. Hill's work combines traditional reporting with new techniques and methodologies, including geolocation and chronolocation, satellite imagery analysis, large dataset manipulation, machine learning, and aircraft and vessel tracking. Most recently, Hill was a lead reporter on a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post investigation that used photos, videos, Lidar and satellite imagery to make a 3D recreation of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024, and identify how the assailant had avoided Secret Service protections. 

Hill joined The Post in 2023 from the New York Times visual investigations team, where he was a lead reporter on three investigations that were part of Pulitzer Prize-winning packages. One proved that the United States killed 10 civilians in Kabul in the final drone strike of the 20-year war in Afghanistan in 2021. That investigation prompted the Defense Department to admit its error and offer compensation and relocation to the family. 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 identifying 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 from Egypt and Libya. He started his journalism career in San Francisco, where he reported on the police, criminal courts and District Attorney Kamala Harris.

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