Gilbert M. Gaul

Gilbert M. Gaul (1951-) grew up in Kearny, New Jersey, and attended St. Benedict's Prep in Newark. For more than 35 years he was a reporter at the Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and other newspapers. In 1979, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (along with Elliot Jaspin) for investigative reporting for a series on the collapse of the Blue Coal Corporation. He won a second Pulitzer in 1990 (Public Service) for a series analyzing safety flaws in the nation's blood supply. He was also short-listed for Pulitzers in 1990, 1994, 2001 and 2007. Gaul was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, concentrating on business and economics, and was a Ferris Professor at Princeton University.