Jennifer Gollan

About

Jennifer Gollan is an investigative reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. She joined the Chronicle from the Center for Investigative Reporting, where she led national investigations that appeared in the Associated Press, the Guardian US and Politico Magazine. She also worked with PBS NewsHour and Al Jazeera English’s “Fault Lines” on special television reports and documentaries.Her investigations have prompted national rules that limit police chases to the most serious crimes; sweeping changes in federal law that expanded the power of local and state police and prosecutors to crack down on abusers with illegal guns; congressional hearings and new legislation to thwart labor abuse in elder care homes; and federal legislation to protect workers building warships for the U.S. Navy.Projects she led have received various honors. In 2025, she was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for “Fast and Fatal,” an investigation that exposed the soaring death toll tied to police pursuits in the U.S., mostly over low-level offenses, and the near-total immunity that shields officers when they initiate deadly chases that flout the law or kill bystanders. The project also won the Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, a Sidney Award and was a finalist for Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.In 2022, she received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award for “When Abusers Keep Their Guns,” an investigation that exposed how perpetrators often kill their partners with firearms they possess unlawfully. Her work has also earned a national Emmy Award, a Hillman Prize for Web Journalism, two Sigma Delta Chi Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, a National Headliner Award, a Gracie Award and two Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing awards.