Honolulu Civil Beat
Christina Jedra is an experienced investigative reporter currently working for Honolulu Civil Beat since June 2019, focusing on enterprise and investigative stories with a significant emphasis on the water contamination crisis linked to operations at the Navy's Red Hill fuel facility. Prior to this role, Christina reported for The News Journal Media Group from August 2016 to May 2019, where notable investigations included uncovering fraudulent practices within a state-funded addiction treatment program and exposing misconduct involving a former city council president. Earlier experience includes reporting positions at Capital Gazette Communications, The Baltimore Sun, and internships at various notable organizations such as New England Center for Investigative Reporting, Meredith Corporation, Boston Magazine, USA TODAY, and The Boston Globe. Christina holds a B.S. in Journalism from Emerson College and studied in Athens, Greece at Arcadia University.
Honolulu Civil Beat
Our focus is on investigative and watchdog journalism, in-depth enterprise reporting, analysis and commentary that gives readers a broad view on issues of importance to the community. The philanthropic gift that Pierre Omidyar gave to create Civil Beat in 2010 began a unique opportunity for Hawaii to develop a non-commercial media platform whose mission it is to inform and educate Hawaii residents so they can make good decisions about vital issues. Civil Beat has quickly become one of the most respected news sites in Hawaii. Our journalists have won dozens of state, regional and national awards and Civil Beat has been named the best news website in Hawaii for the past five years by the Society of Professional Journalists. Civil Beat also hopes to foster community discussion by providing a place where citizens can debate important issues in a civil manner, free from cheap shots and personal swipes. We do that through encouraging a wide variety of reader-submitted Community Voices, public events and through our integrated Civil Comments platform.