Reena Flores

Washington, D.C.

Supervising senior producer

Education: University of California at Berkeley

Reena Flores is the supervising senior producer on The Washington Post's audio team. She works on the flagship daily news podcast, "Post Reports." She also led production of The Post's first long-form investigative podcast, "Canary: The Washington Post Investigates" -- a seven-part series on the aftermath of a sexual assault. The podcast was named one of Apple's best podcasts of the year in 2020. Before joining The Post, Flores was a video and podcast producer at Politico. She was also a digital political reporter and video producer for CBS News's Washington bureau.
Latest from Reena Flores

The deadly world of white-supremacist prison gangs

Missing people, buried car parts and human remains in Oklahoma: the silent but not so secret influence of white-supremacist prison gangs.

April 21, 2023

Does Disney have a Star Wars problem?

Disney has planned out the next decade of Marvel and Star Wars films, but are audiences still willing to keep up with all its content, or is fatigue setting in?

April 20, 2023

The top-secret document leak panicking U.S. officials

The photos of top-secret Pentagon documents first started appearing online on Discord, a chat platform popular with gamers. But where did they come from? And just how many military secrets do they contain?

April 12, 2023

The virus hunters

A journey into the wild world of high-risk virus hunting, a coming reckoning, and The Post’s year-long investigation into the U.S. role in pushing such research to the edge.

April 10, 2023

The Iraq I never knew

What is it like to leave a country in crisis - only to return years later to a devastated homeland? Today, a Post photojournalist journeys back to Iraq after 24 years.

April 7, 2023

How Putin pushed Finland to join NATO

Finland just joined NATO. Sweden is waiting in the wings. Will this beefed-up security alliance — a direct result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — be enough to keep President Vladimir Putin at bay?

April 5, 2023

An historic global heist — and a rapper on trial

Former Fugees rapper Pras is on trial for conspiracy, money laundering and acting as a foreign agent. The case, involving celebrities and political figures, is a small part of a bigger scandal: the $4.5 billion theft from the Malaysian government.

April 3, 2023

Trump’s indicted. Now what?

Former president Donald Trump has been indicted. Today, how the case could test the limits of our political and legal systems.

March 31, 2023

Finding love in an AI place

As loneliness rates spike, more people are getting romantically and emotionally attached to artificial intelligence bots. Today, we report on what it’s like to fall in love with software (and what happens when it breaks your heart).

March 30, 2023

A turning point in Israel

Nationwide strikes and protests erupted in Israel as outrage grew over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the country’s courts. Many saw the move as a threat to Israel’s democracy. And on Monday, Netanyahu announced he would put the plan on pause.

March 27, 2023