Ryan Gabrielson is an American
investigative journalist
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years rese ...
. He has won a George Polk Award, and
Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
The Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting is awarded to an example of "local reporting that illuminates significant issues or concerns." This Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1948. Like most Pulitzers the winner receives a $15,000 award.
Histor ...
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Education
He graduated from the
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. ...
.
Career
Gabrielson began his career in journalism at ''
The Monitor'' in
McAllen, Texas
McAllen is the largest city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States, and the 22nd-most populous city in Texas. It is located at the southern tip of the state in the Rio Grande Valley, on the Mexico–United States border. The city limits exte ...
. He reported for the ''
East Valley Tribune
The ''East Valley Tribune'' is a newspaper concentrated on cities within the East Valley region of metropolitan Phoenix, including Mesa, Tempe, Chandler, Gilbert, and Queen Creek.
Formerly a daily newspaper, the ''Tribune'' resulted from th ...
'' in
Mesa, Arizona
Mesa ( ) is a city in Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is the most populous city in the East Valley section of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. It is bordered by Tempe on the west, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community ...
.
In 2009 and 2010 he was a fellow in the Investigative Reporting Program at
, which supports investigative reporters "in an era of cutbacks at major news organizations".
[ He is currently working for ]California Watch
California Watch, part of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, began producing stories in 2009. The official launch of the California Watch website took place in January 2010. The team was best known for producing well researched and w ...
and the Center for Investigative Reporting as a public safety reporter. Gabrielson reported on an in-house police force at California's board-and-care institutions for the disabled. Through this work, he exposed how officers "routinely failed to do basic work on criminal cases" such as suspicious deaths.
For the ''East Valley Tribune'' in 2008, Gabrielson and Paul Giblin Paul Giblin is an American investigative journalist based in Phoenix, Arizona.
He graduated from University of Arizona in 1988.
He worked for the ''East Valley Tribune'' in Mesa, Arizona.
He writes for the ''Arizona Guardian''.
He is a civilian sp ...
investigated the immigration-enforcement operations of the Maricopa County
Maricopa County is in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,420,568, making it the state's most populous county, and the fourth-most populous in the United States. It contains about ...
Sheriff's Office. For this investigation, they won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
The Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting is awarded to an example of "local reporting that illuminates significant issues or concerns." This Pulitzer Prize was first awarded in 1948. Like most Pulitzers the winner receives a $15,000 award.
Histor ...
which cited "their adroit use of limited resources to reveal, in print and online, how a popular sheriff's focus on immigration enforcement endangered investigation of violent crime and other aspects of public safety."[ (Giblin had been laid off in ''Tribune'' cutbacks at the turn of the year, and Gabrielson announced his departure for the Berkeley fellowship in the summer.)][
An associate of a top official at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department in 2014 unsuccessfully sued Gabrielson for defamation.
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Awards
* 2008 George Polk Award
The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the awar ...
* 2009 Pulitzer Prize["The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Local Reporting"]
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-07. Wit
short biographies
and reprints of ten works (''Tribune'' articles July 9 to July 13, 2008).
*Online Journalism Award for investigative reporting
* Sigma Delta Chi Award
The Sigma Delta Chi Awards are presented annually by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) (formerly Sigma Delta Chi) for excellence in journalism. The SPJ states the purpose of the award is to promote "the free flow of information vital ...
References
External links
"Logan Symposium: How the Sausage Is Made? (Journalists)"
Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
American male journalists
Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting winners
George Polk Award recipients
University of Arizona alumni
University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism alumni
Livingston Award winners for National Reporting
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