Jamie Self is deputy managing editor of inewsource, a nonprofit investigate news organization in San Diego, CA. She supervises reporters covering education, immigration and infrastructure and works with early career journalists. Previously, she was the state politics and government editor for The State, a McClatchy paper in Columbia, S.C. In that role, she oversaw investigations that revealed a secret system lawmakers use to funnel millions of dollars to pet projects of their choice and exposed the death of a state hospital psychiatric patient at the hands of untrained healthcare workers who piled on top of him in violation of policy. Self lives in San Diego with her husband, twin children and dog.