Moriah Balingit
Washington, D.C.
Reporter covering national education issues
Education: American University, MA in journalism and public affairs; University of Oregon, BS in journalism
Moriah Balingit covers national education issues for The Washington Post. She started in the newsroom as a graduate student fellow from American University in 2014, earning a master's degree in journalism while covering Virginia schools. Before coming to The Post, she covered crime, city hall and crime in city hall for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She also wrote about former mill towns and juvenile murder convicts, and covered a mass shooting at a psychiatric hospital.
While in Pittsburgh, she earned fellowships from the International Center for Journalists and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis