Jason Dearen is the author of the critically acclaimed book Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, A Deadly Disease (Avery Books/Penguin Random House). He is an award-winning investigative journalist who writes about the environment, public health and criminal justice. Jason was a 2018-2019 Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT, and is currently on the national investigative team at The Associated Press.

Jason recently served as a consulting producer for the Hulu documentary Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan (2023), a joint production by ABC News and The AP. The doc is based on his award-winning AP investigative series The Badge and The Cross, which chronicled a Ku Klux Klan murder plot in Florida that exposed ties between the white supremacist group and law enforcement in the state.

Jason’s work has won a number of national journalism awards and has been nominated by The AP for the Pulitzer Prize three times. He grew up in California, and attended the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.