William Neff

Washington, D.C.

Graphics reporter for the Local desk

Education: University of Cincinnati

William Neff creates static and motion graphics and generates original video content for the Washington Post's Local desk. He joined The Post's graphics team after 3 1/2 years on the Video desk, and before that as a senior news artist and multimedia content producer at the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Latest from William Neff

    The scale of the search for the missing submersible

    The task is huge: Finding a craft the size of a minivan in an area twice the size of the state of Connecticut and up to 2½ miles deep.

    June 22, 2023

    Mapping the Cessna Citation’s flight path over D.C. and sonic boom from F-16s

    See how a private Cessna Citation plane violated D.C.’s no-fly zone, causing the Pentagon to send F-16 fighter jets to intercept it at supersonic speeds.

    June 6, 2023

      Inside the fortified rooms securing U.S. secrets

      Acoustic sealant, motion sensors: How SCIFs are built to protect highly classified information.

      April 26, 2023

      Inside the rockets that NASA and SpaceX plan to send to the moon

      In the way they are manufactured, financed and designed to work, NASA’s SLS and SpaceX’s Starship represent two very different approaches.

      April 15, 2023

        How the U.S. improvised a plan to deal with a Chinese balloon

        The arrival of a Chinese high-altitude balloon in U.S. airspace called for a measure of creativity and forced military planners to improvise a response.

        February 23, 2023

          How do stratospheric balloons work? Here’s a visual guide.

          How do balloons similar to the Chinese balloon work? How do these balloons fly? Where is China's balloon headed? We put together a visual explainer.

          February 4, 2023

          For Ukraine, what’s so special about Germany’s Leopard 2 tanks?

          The German-made battle tank may be a highly prized piece of military technology, but the logistic networks that could support it may be even more important.

          January 25, 2023

          The many, many reasons space travel is bad for the human body

          Humans evolved in conditions of plentiful gravity and relatively little radiation. Space is the reverse — and it upends almost every system inside of us.

          January 12, 2023

            Making space colonization a reality

            NASA wants to take us back to the moon — this time to stay. Here are the challenges we're going to have to overcome to make that happen.

            January 8, 2023

            What bodybuilders do to their bodies — and brains

            For pro bodybuilders, biggest is best onstage. Steroid use is rampant. But creating that bulk can disrupt nearly every system in the body.

            December 8, 2022