Christina Jedra is Civil Beat’s deputy editor. She leads a team focused on enterprise and investigative reporting – stories that hold power to account, follow taxpayer money and spotlight people who have been harmed.

She was previously an investigative reporter for Civil Beat. In 2024, Christina and her Civil Beat colleagues were recognized as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for their breaking news coverage of the deadly Maui wildfires of August 2023. Her stories exposed the questionable hiring of an inexperienced emergency manager as well as state and county agencies’ failure to plan for a foreseeable disaster. Christina’s reporting on the Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility has been recognized by the Best of the West journalism contest and earned an Emmy Award, Edward R. Murrow Award and a first-place Institute for Nonprofit News “INNY” Award for investigative reporting.

A graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Christina started her career at The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland and The News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware. Christina was born and raised in New Jersey and has strong feelings about quality bagels and pizza.

Christina welcomes story ideas and anonymous tips at cjedra@civilbeat.org.