The Chronicle

About this Author

Audrey Cooper is the editor in chief of The San Francisco Chronicle, the first woman to fill the role in the company’s 154-year history and the youngest woman in U.S. history to run a major metro newsroom.

Every year since she was named editor, The Chronicle has been named the best large newspaper in California by the state’s leading news association. And under her leadership, The Chronicle has won nearly every major national journalism prize as well as more than a dozen Emmy awards.

Audrey prioritizes investigative and explanatory journalism. Recent areas of focus have included investigating the causes and response to the Northern California wildfires; the troubled cleanup of the nation’s largest Superfund site, the mistreatment of foster youth in state shelters; shocking changes in juvenile crime; and misspent state and local tax dollars.

In her spare time, Audrey volunteers for San Francisco City Guides, a nonprofit that gives free walking tours of San Francisco.