Tracy Jan is a senior editor for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, where she partners with local news outlets on investigative projects.

Before joining ProPublica in 2025, Jan was a deputy health and science editor at The Washington Post, where she led coverage of medical misinformation, public health and other health accountability stories. She was an editor on the paper’s 2023 team series “Dying Early: America’s Life Expectancy Crisis,” which won the Online News Association's Investigative Data Journalism Award and a National Headliner First Place Award.

As a reporter, Jan launched a beat on the intersection of race and the economy at the Post, where her work holding businesses and politicians accountable for their decisions and promises was regularly recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Awards in investigative reporting, business reporting and feature writing. She was part of a team whose examination of systemic racism in the “George Floyd’s America” series won a 2021 Polk Award. And she shut down a Hollywood manager three days after revealing how he had sexually preyed on Black actresses for decades.

Before the Post, Jan was a national political reporter at The Boston Globe, where she was a two-time Livingston Award finalist. She started her career covering crime, courts and education at The Oregonian and was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan as well as a Fulbright Fellow in Taiwan. Jan also serves as journalism director of The Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation.