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Jennifer Wadsworth

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Baton Rouge, San Francisco
As seen in: The San Francisco Standard, The Washington Post, SFGate, The Daily Beast, Flipboard, Anchorage Daily News, The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), NewsBreak, East Bay Express, KPXJ 21/KTBS 3 (Shreveport, LA), Metroactive and
senior editor @sfstandard. previously @theadvocatebr @metronewspaper @sanjoseinside. bylines @washingtonpost @thedailybeast @sfgate etc.

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Award-winning investigative reporter, narrative journalist and editor.

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$97M in Hunters Point settlements close fraud case. Safety, cleanup questions remain

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By Jennifer Wadsworth Verified
| The San Francisco Standard Verified
Published Aug. 24, 2026at6:05pm More than a decade ago, a contractor hired to clean up radioactive soil at San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard got busted for faking the results by swapping contaminated soil with clean samples. This week, that chapter is closed, with the company, Tetra Tech EC Inc. paying a total of $97 million to the federal government, officials said.
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Their roommate died. Then their rent more than tripled to $9,250

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By Jennifer Wadsworth Verified
| The San Francisco Standard Verified
Published Aug. 20, 2026at6:00am Dustin Lee knew something was off when the apartment went quiet. His roommate, Michael Hutchings, known as Hutch, hadn’t been seen or heard from in nearly a week — no snoring, no dog barking, no texted reminders that rent was due. Lee assumed he’d left town. Then Hutch’s sister reached out. She and her brother usually spoke every day, but she hadn’t heard from him. Lee knocked on Hutch’s door. No one answered. Feeling uneasy, Lee called authorities for a wellness check.
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Castro bars dropped face scanners. The bigger fight isn’t over

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By Jennifer Wadsworth Verified
| The San Francisco Standard Verified
Published Aug. 16, 2026at6:00am A monthslong fight over an ID-scanning system that photographs arriving patrons at Castro gay bars has come to a head, with all three venues known to use it — Badlands, Toad Hall, and most recently The Mix — halting the practice under pressure from privacy advocates. But the retreat from the ID-check tool, called PatronScan, hasn’t settled the question at the heart of the fight: whether the added security is worth the privacy trade-off.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

As a stringer for community newspapers. First full-time: general assignment reporter for the Tracy Press.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Twice when I was 5 and thought it was some kind of robot.

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter?