Gilbert M. Gaul

Investigative

» Reporter | Gilbert M. Gaul joined The Post’s investigations unit in 2001, after working for nearly two decades at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Gil has twice been awarded the Pulitzer Prize and has been a finalist on four other occasions. Most recently he was part of the reporting team that identified more than $15 billion in waste, fraud and abuse in the nation’s farm subsidy programs, a series that was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer for public service. He previously won that category for his 1989 series on flaws in the nation’s blood system. In 1979, he shared the Pulitzer for investigative reporting for stories about organized crime in the coal industry. Gil also has reported on homeland security, the black market for prescription drugs and problems in the Medicare program.

He grew up in New Jersey, where he was a nationally ranked javelin thrower and graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He also has been a Nieman fellow at Harvard University.