Jennifer Wehunt joined FRONTLINE in 2020 as digital editor, assigning and editing original digital journalism and leading the digital editorial team that won the 2021 Webby for News & Politics.

She was previously editorial director of the Appalachian Mountain Club, where her team won one National Outdoor Book Award and many AM&P Magazine Excel Awards, and a senior editor at Chicago magazine, where she won one City and Regional Magazine Award, among several nominations. Her reporting on food access for Chicago was cited by the Illinois Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and included in the 2014 compilation Food: A Reader for Writers, from Oxford University Press. While at Chicago, she also taught editing at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, from which she received her master's.

Her reporting and writing on the intersection of humans and the environment has appeared in Texas Highways and Rhode Island Monthly, among other publications.