Kevin Fagan
Reporter
The Chronicle
About this Author
Kevin Fagan is a longtime reporter at The San Francisco Chronicle. He specializes in enterprise news-feature writing and breaking news, taking particular pleasure in ferreting out stories others might not find — from profiling the desperate lives of homeless drug addicts to riding the rails with hobos, finding people who sleep in coffins and detailing the intricacies of hunting down serial killers.
From 2003 to 2006, Kevin was the only beat reporter in the United States covering homelessness full time. He has witnessed seven prison executions and has covered many of the biggest breaking stories of our time, from the Sept. 11 terror attacks at Ground Zero and the Columbine High School massacre to Barack Obama’s election as president, the deadly Mendocino Complex, Wine Country and Ghost Ship fires and the Occupy movement. Homelessness remains a special focus of his, close to his heart as a journalist who cares passionately about the human condition.
He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from San Jose State University and was raised in California and Nevada.
Awards & Recognition
Fagan’s individual recognitions have included prizes from Heywood Broun, National Headliner Awards, Best of the West, California Newspaper Publishers’ Association and the Society of Professional Journalists’ “Best Scoop Of The Year.” In 2006 he won the national James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism as well as a Knight Fellowship to Stanford University, which allowed him to spend the 2006-07 academic year at the university studying aspects of the American West.
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Sizzling temperatures roast the East Bay
July 27, 2019
SF homeless population swells by 17% in latest tally
May 16, 2019
The Chronicle
