Jesse Marx

Jesse Marx is a journalist whose work focuses on police, politics and labor in a time of rising inequality. He is the former deputy investigative editor at the San Francisco Chronicle and former associate editor at Voice of San Diego, where he managed the internship program and mentored students primarily from SDSU, City College and Southwestern Community College. 

 

His reporting on police technology was cited by the grassroots coalition that wrote San Diego’s surveillance ordinance, and his reporting on cops with criminal records led to reforms at the state level. Other stories on Covid-19-related deaths earned his reporting team the First Amendment Coalition’s 2021 Free Speech & Open Government Award and SPJ San Diego’s 2022 First Amendment Award. 

 

His byline has also appeared in Wired, The Nation, In These Times and San Diego Magazine, and he helped launch the community newspaper All Rise. He’s co-author of “Redacted,” a book about state secrecy and public records, and a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School.