Jenny Jarvie is a national reporter for the Los Angeles Times, based on the breaking news desk. She has worked as a political reporter focusing on the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections and an Atlanta bureau chief, covering Category 5 hurricanes, mass shootings and civil rights trials, as well as some of the nation’s most radioactive culture war disputes.
Over the years, she has explored the challenges of rebuilding across the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, gentrification after Hurricane Michael and climate fears after Hurricane Ian. After the fall of Roe. vs Wade, she reported from the last abortion clinic in Mississippi as it closed its doors and an Alabama abortion clinic pivoting to the post-Roe world. She examined the widening gap between old and new civil rights activists in Atlanta, hit the streets of Miami’s Little Havana when news broke of the death of Fidel Castro and swam among sharks while chronicling the rescue of endangered coral off the Florida Keys.
As a national reporter, she traveled to Oregon to ask “What’s the matter with Portland?,” delved into the history of Palestinian solidarity on college campuses, examined the tension between free speech and safety on college campuses and explored the differing perspectives among Jewish students as activists installed Zionist checkpoints at UCLA. After the 2025 L.A. fires, she chronicled L.A.’s history of rebuilding on hillsides and ongoing failures issuing evacuation warnings and alerts.
She has written narratives of individuals caught in the middle of cultural and political upheaval: two fathers divided on guns, united in grief after the Parkland mass shooting, a Trump voter in Georgia and his undocumented wife raising their son from opposite sides of the border, a transgender psychologist in California struggling with the ethics of helping teens to transition, and a Waffle House worker who survived COVID-19 and thought America was overreacting.
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