Jen Fifield

Jen Fifield covers Phoenix and Maricopa County government and politics. It’s her pleasure to cover her hometown and her community. After graduating from Arizona State University’s Cronkite School in 2009, she moved to the D.C. area, where she first covered government and education for local papers in Maryland and then covered trends in state policy across the U.S. for Stateline, a journalism project of The Pew Charitable Trusts. In 2018, she landed a job at The Arizona Republic and came home. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, PBS NewsHour and other outlets. Regional press associations in Arizona and Maryland have recognized her investigative and feature reporting, as well as her coverage of local politics and education. She was a City University of New York Ravitch Fiscal Reporting Fellow in 2015 and a National Press Foundation Paul Miller Reporting Fellow in 2017.