The Marshall Project Names Jennifer Peter New Editor-in-Chief

Jennifer Peter has been named editor-in-chief of The Marshall Undertaking, the Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit newsroom that covers prison justice. When Peter joins The Marshall Undertaking on Sept. 29, she’s going to grow to be the third editor-in-chief of The Marshall Undertaking, changing Susan Chira, who stepped down in December of final yr.

“Jennifer is the sort of chief and editor who has spent her profession serving to produce groundbreaking investigations and journalism, typically underneath probably the most attempting circumstances,” mentioned Katrice Hardy, CEO of The Marshall Undertaking.

Peter began her profession as a reporter, working for 12 years at newspapers in Idaho, Connecticut and Virginia earlier than becoming a member of The Related Press in Boston, which she later left for The Globe.

At The Globe, she shortly rose from a regional editor in 2004, to turning into the politics editor, metropolis editor, after which metro editor in 2010. She oversaw The Globe’s Boston Marathon bombing protection, which received the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking Information.

In 2018, Jennifer was promoted to the function of managing editor, serving to spearhead a digital revolution targeted on an pressing response to information and tendencies, mission-driven enterprise and data-informed decision-making. In 2019, she conceived The Valedictorian Undertaking, which traced the destiny of 100 Boston college students who graduated on the prime of their class a decade earlier, however later confronted socioeconomic obstacles in reaching their potential. It was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in native reporting. In 2023, she added the title of chief of workers to her function.

“I’m past thrilled to be becoming a member of such a high-caliber information group with such a essential mission, notably presently in our historical past,” Peter mentioned. “The Marshall Undertaking was launched to satisfy the urgency of this second, when a lot of the prison justice system is being reshaped.”

Peter is becoming a member of The Marshall Undertaking simply after it celebrated its tenth anniversary. The nationwide outlet not too long ago launched a e-newsletter specializing in immigration, whereas persevering with its groundbreaking reporting on points akin to the implications of misguided drug testing of recent moms and the enlargement of personal prisons to accommodate ICE detention.

Regionally, the nonprofit information group not too long ago uncovered questionable practices by a choose in Cleveland, who’s now going through self-discipline. The St. Louis crew expanded upon a multi-year reporting undertaking and launched “Keep in mind Me,” a set of highly effective murals in St. Louis, honoring victims of the greater than 1000 unsolved latest homicides within the metropolis.

Peter will assume editorial management of a information crew of greater than 60.

Since January, Geraldine Sealey has served as interim editor-in-chief along with her managing editor function, serving to the information group proceed its run of exceptional and progressive journalism, Hardy mentioned.

“Geraldine has led this information group with ardour and ambition, and I’m so grateful to her for taking over one other management function on an interim foundation alongside her already demanding managing editor obligations,” Hardy mentioned.