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. History ...

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. T ...

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 extend ...

. 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 the ...

'' in

Mesa, Arizona Mesa ( ) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is the most populous city in the East Valley (Phoenix metropolitan area), East Valley section of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. It is bordered by ...

. In 2009 and 2010 he was a fellow in the Investigative Reporting Program at

University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism The UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism is a graduate professional school on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. It is among the top graduate journalism schools in the United States, and is designed to produce journalists wi ...

, which supports investigative reporters "in an era of cutbacks at major news organizations". He is currently working for California Watch 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 6 ...

Sheriff's Office. For this investigation, they won the 2009

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.

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 award ...

* 2009

Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...

"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 {{US-journalist-20thC-stub