Matthias Gafni is an investigative reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle who reports on corruption, sexual abuse, criminal justice, aviation, health care and more. In 2017, he won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for his work on the Ghost Ship fire. In 2018, he was named SPJ Reporter of the Year in Northern California. The following year, he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for his work covering the Camp Fire. In 2020, he won a Polk Award for military reporting for articles about a COVID-infested aircraft carrier, and in 2020 he won an IRE Award for his examination of the failures of an East Bay hospital. He grew up in the Bay Area and graduated from UC Davis.