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# Lisa Gartner joins WaPo as a deputy editor on the long-term investigative team
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/lisa-gartner-joins-wapo-as-a-deputy-editor-on-the-long-term-investigative-team/
- Published: 2024-07-31T15:27:02.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-31T22:04:52.000Z
- Author: Capitol Communicator
- Tags: People, Media, #wp-top-right-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:54

**Lisa Gartner is joining The Washington Post as a deputy editor on the long-term investigative team**. She comes to The Post from the San Francisco Chronicle, where, states The Post, “she has served as investigations editor since 2020, overseeing a group of reporters on a string of high-impact, award-winning stories and projects.

“In 2022, she edited a [devastating examination](https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/san-francisco-sros/?ref=capitolcommunicator.com) of San Francisco’s use of taxpayer money to shelter its homeless population in dilapidated and run-down hotels with little oversight and disastrous results. The series, which prompted an overhaul of how the city ran and funded this housing, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting and won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting.

“In another investigation, Lisa developed a freelancer’s tip into [a run of explosive stories](https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/2021-04-dominic-foppoli-windsor-allegations-16119318.php?ref=capitolcommunicator.com) that revealed more than a dozen women who said they had been sexually assaulted by a Sonoma County mayor known as a “prince” of Wine Country. Weeks after publication, the mayor resigned. Lisa also edited stories that meticulously documented the [questionable deaths](https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/john-muir-medical-child-surgery-17057392.php?ref=capitolcommunicator.com) of four children in a pediatric critical care unit at a Walnut Creek hospital and an investigation that revealed 551 bystanders had died over six years in [high-speed police chases](https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/police-chases/?ref=capitolcommunicator.com) nationwide while the officers involved faced little or no consequences.”

Editing at The Post will mark a return to D.C. for Gartner, who began her career in 2010 covering education for the Washington Examiner.

More [here](https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2024/07/30/lisa-gartner-joins-post-deputy-editor-long-term-investigations/?ref=capitolcommunicator.com).