Ellen Gabler is an investigative reporter for the New York Times and a member of a team awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Early life and education]
editGabler attended Memorial High School in her native Eau Claire, Wisconsin. In 2003 she graduated Emory University with a degree in journalism and business. She was a swimmer through high school and college. She is a 2006 graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and was awarded a New York Financial Writers of America scholarship.[1]
Career
editHer first position as a reporter was with the Gazette in Stillwater, Minnesota, covering city affairs. Subsequent reporting positions included the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Chicago Tribune. She joined the New York Times in 2017.[2]
In 2006 she was featured in an ABC 20/20 episode discussing a Waukesha, Wisconsin, murder case.[3] She won the 2013 Livingston Award for Young Journalists in national reporting, as well as several other national honors,[4] for identifying systemic errors in testing newborns, leading to preventable deaths and disabilities. This has led to many states mandating changes in how tests were performed and to identfy problem hospitals.[5] For this article Gabler spent five months fighting to review newborn screening data from all 50 states, and not all complied. The analysis of more the 3 million tests showed that there were life threatening problems with the first test given to nearly every baby born in the U.S.[6] For her work on the investigative reporting uncovering misconduct and harassment by men across many industries, she won multiple awards with her co-workers. She was awarded the Pulizer Prize for Public Service,[7] the John M. Higgins Award for Best In-Depth Enterprise Reporting[8] and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for domestic reporting.[9] This series of articles set off workplace investigations, criminal investigations, and the Me Too movement.[10] Her May, 2018, fast moving story about New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's allegations of physically assaulting women had 1.4 million page views; Schneiderman had long cast himself "a champion of women."[11] She is a finalist for the 2019 feature article Gerald Loeb Award[12] for "'If Bobbie Talks, I'm finished': How Les Moonves Tried to Silence an Accuser."[13] Although the complaints against Moonves were known at the time of the article, the Times reported that it was the cover-up, not the allegations, that led to Moonves' early exit from CBS.[14] His words: "If Bobby talks, I'm finished," reverberated across news outlets.[15] On May 30, 2019 the New York Times published a lengthy investigative, "gut wrenching"[16] report by Gabler on the pediatric cardiac surgery program at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. She reported that some doctors suspected that patients with complex conditions were dying at a higher-than-expected rate, and discussed the ensuing controversy. Secret audio tapes were obtained; the doctors comments "offer a rare, unfiltered look inside a medical institution as physicians weighed ethical obligations to their patients while their bosses also worried about harming the surgical program," wrote Gabler.[17] She is an adjunct professor at the Columbia School of Journalism,[18] and on the board of directors of Investigative Reporters and Editors.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Scholarships | New York Financial Writers' Association". www.nyfwa.org. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ Leader-Telegram, Julian Emerson Eau Claire. "Former Gazette reporter part of Pulitzer-winning team". hometownsource.com. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ^ Out of the Woods, retrieved 2019-06-01
- ^ a b "Ellen Gabler's schedule for The Power of Narrative 2018". thepowerofnarrative2018.sched.com. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ "Livingston Awards announced for young journalists". Knight Foundation. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ "Ellen Gabler | LabQualityConfab". www.labqualityconfab.com. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ "Ellen Gabler". The New York Times. 2019-06-01. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ "2018 Mirror Award winners announced today at New York City awards ceremony". mirrorawards.syr.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ Rights, Robert F. Kennedy Human. "FULL LIST: 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Award Winners". Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ^ "U.S." The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ^ "How MeToo makes news". The New York Times. June 14, 2018.
- ^ "2019 Gerald Loeb Award Finalists, Career Achievement Honorees and Date of Awards Banquet in New York City Announced by UCLA Anderson". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ Stewart, James B.; Abrams, Rachel; Gabler, Ellen (2018-11-28). "'If Bobbie Talks, I'm Finished': How Les Moonves Tried to Silence an Accuser". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ Business, Brian Stelter, CNN. "New York Times reporters reveal how they investigated Les Moonves's final days at CBS". CNN. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Feldman, Dana. "With New Allegations Piling Up Against Les Moonves, Will CBS Pay $120M Severance?". Forbes. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ "A North Carolina children's hospital kept performing heart surgery, despite doctors' concerns". Axios. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ Gabler, Ellen (2019-05-30). "Doctors Were Alarmed: 'Would I Have My Children Have Surgery Here?'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
- ^ "Ellen Gabler | School of Journalism". journalism.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-01.
Category:Investigative journalists Category:People from Eau Claire, Wisconsin Category:Living people Category:The New York Times people Category:Pulitzer Prize for Public Service winners Category:People from Stillwater, Minnesota