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DOJ tells California registrars to quarantine ballots within 48 hours
San Francisco Chronicle • • nation
Key Points:
- Sara DiNatale is a political reporter focusing on the Trump administration's policies and their effects on the Bay Area and California, having joined the Chronicle in 2025.
- She has over a decade of experience reporting across the southern United States for outlets like the San Antonio Express-News, Tampa Bay Times, and Mississippi Today.
- DiNatale won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the Chronicle’s “Burned” series, which exposed how California’s largest insurers shortchange wildfire survivors.
- She received a 2024 George Polk Award for investigating the Texas residential solar industry, leading to new state regulations against fraudulent practices.
- Her work has earned multiple state and national journalism awards, and she is a University at Buffalo graduate from Western New York.
