Lisa Gartner joins WaPo as a deputy editor on the long-term investigative team
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 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 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 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 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.
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