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Marissa Lang

  • National Correspondent, NPR
Washington, D.C.
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National correspondent @NPR. Recovering newspaper reporter. Ex-@washingtonpost. Pulitzer winner. NYC native pero DC stan. Latina bilingüe. DMs open. ✌️
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Marissa Lang’s Biography

Marissa J. Lang is an enterprise reporter for The Washington Post focused on high-impact stories in the D.C.region. She previously covered housing and gentrification, zeroing in on the affordable housing crisis, homelessness and the transformation of cities. She joined The Post in 2018 as its lead protest reporter. Her coverage of domestic extremism and the violence that led to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol culminated in her on-the-ground reporting of the insurrection and its aftermath. Marissa was part of the team of journalists recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2022.

Before coming to The Post, Marissa worked at local newspapers from Florida to California, covering subjects that ranged from natural disasters to the tech industry. She has also reported internationally from several countries, including Mexico and Rwanda.

he HEFAT-certified, an active member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) and a dedicated mentor of student journalists. In 2018, she began teaching intermediate journalism courses as an adjunct at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

A native of New York City, Marissa is a pizza snob who now lives in Washington, DC.

Se habla español.