Stephanie Chavez

Stephanie Chavez is a deputy editor in Metro, overseeing education coverage at the Los Angeles Times and working with the leadership team of the newsroom’s largest department. Chavez began her journalism career as an L.A. Times college intern and after several years at the Boston Globe, she returned home as a founding reporter of the Valley Edition. As a Metro reporter and assignment editor, Chavez was part of four Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for breaking news: the Los Angeles riots, the North Hollywood shooting, the Northridge earthquake and the 2004 wildfires. Her coverage of the beating of Reginald Denny at the onset of the 1992 unrest won the Sigma Delta Chi award for breaking news. Her Metro reporting tenure included a long stint as an education reporter, and her coverage of inequities in education and reform efforts received two first-place awards of excellence from education associations. She has also worked as an assistant editor in National.