Matthias Gafni
Reporter
About this Author
Matthias Gafni joined The San Francisco Chronicle as an enterprise reporter in February 2019. He investigates stories in the East Bay and beyond. For almost two decades, Gafni worked for the Bay Area News Group – San Jose Mercury News, East Bay Times and Vallejo Times-Herald -- covering corruption, child sexual abuse, criminal justice, aviation and more. He was born and raised in the Bay Area and graduated from UC Davis. He lives with his wife and three kids in the East Bay.
Awards & Recognition
Gafni won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017 for the East Bay Times coverage of the deadly Ghost Ship Fire. He also was part of the team that won the Scripps Howard and American Society of News Editors breaking news awards for coverage of the Oakland fire. He was named the 2018 Reporter of the Year by the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the same year he won an EPPY for his reporting on the Wine Country fires. Gafni has won multiple James Madison Freedom of Information, Best of the West, Society of Professional Journalists and California News Publishers Association awards over the years.
By This Author
Pedestrian killed on SF’s Market Street — third downtown fatality in less than month
August 11, 2019
At Outside Lands, worst-case scenarios on many people’s minds
August 11, 2019
Lyft driver suspected of raping woman he picked up in San Mateo
August 11, 2019
4 wounded in shooting in SF’s Western Addition
August 11, 2019
