Lisa Gartner becomes deputy editor for long-term research at the Post

In 2022, she edited a devastating investigation into San Francisco’s use of taxpayer money to house the homeless in run-down and dilapidated hotels, with little oversight and disastrous results. The series, which prompted an overhaul of the way the city manages and funds these shelters, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for 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 on a series of explosive stories in which more than a dozen women reported being sexually harassed by a Sonoma County mayor known as the “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 intensive care unit at a Walnut Creek hospital, and an investigation that found that over six years, 551 bystanders nationwide were killed in high-speed chases while the police officers involved faced little to no consequences.

Prior to joining the Chronicle, Lisa was an investigative reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where her research on the nation’s oldest reformatory prompted a 2019 overhaul of Pennsylvania’s juvenile justice system and earned her the George Polk Award for Justice Reporting. As an education reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, Lisa was part of a team that produced “Failure Factories,” a 2015 project that exposed systemic racism in the school system and won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting.

For Lisa, who began her career in 2010 covering education for the Washington Examiner, working as an editor at the Post represents a return to Washington DC

Lisa was born in Brooklyn and raised in Wellington, Florida. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, where she studied journalism and psychology. She and her husband have a 10-month-old son and two dogs of incredible size. Lisa loves traveling, hiking, and good food – she once solo-hiked the Tour du Mont Blanc in Western Europe, a 103-mile route with 10,000 feet of elevation gain, fueled by cheese, bread, and pasta.

Lisa starts September 3rd and will move to DC later this year.

Please join us in welcoming them to The Post.