Lauren Hernandez

About

Lauren Hernández is an award-winning journalist and Los Angeles native who is currently a senior front page editor for HuffPost. She previously spent more than four years reporting for the San Francisco Chronicle. Before that, she reported for the Statesman Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network, in Salem, Oregon. She is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and CCNMA Latino Journalists of California.At the 2022 Bay Area Journalism Awards, she won first and second place for two of her San Francisco Chronicle news stories. She also earned the Bill Workman Newswriting Award. * First place: A story about a bronze statue in San Jose of Thomas Fallon — who in 1846 plunged the American flag into the soil to claim land from Mexico during the Mexican-American War — and how local residents argue it should be removed because it celebrates colonization and genocide. * Second place: A story about how San Joaquin County deputies beat Jacob Servin in a jail cell. What happened in the cell was off-camera. No one disputes that deputies repeatedly punched Servin, but the question is: Was it legal?She won second place for investigative reporting in the Society of Professional Journalists 2018 Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest for her story on decades of sexual assault allegations against pastors at a megachurch in Salem, Oregon dating back to 1994.