Announcement from Business Editor Lori Montgomery, Deputy Business Editor Damian Paletta and Business Assignment Editor Sandhya Somashekhar:
We are thrilled to denote that Daniel Gilbert volition beryllium joining The Post to screen the concern of medicine, a caller bushed exploring however pharmaceutical firms, health-technology companies and medical-device makers are shaping the adjacent procreation of treatments, exerting power successful Washington and making their people connected consumers.
Daniel comes to america from the Seattle Times, wherever helium spent the past 7 years arsenic an investigative newsman specializing successful aesculapian and intelligence wellness care. Among his astir high-impact work, Daniel broke stories connected a deadly mold outbreak astatine a children’s hospital, revealed delays successful disciplining aesculapian professionals for misconduct and produced a task connected the rise of for-profit psychiatric hospitals that inspired authorities lawmakers to enact a caller instrumentality to support diligent safety.
Daniel earlier covered fracking and Big Oil for the Wall Street Journal successful Houston for 5 years, chronicling the decline of manufacture giants and penning specified memorable stories arsenic then-Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson's crusade against a h2o tower adjacent his home. Daniel antecedently was a unit writer for the Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier, wherever his probe into the mismanagement of natural-gas royalties owed to landowners successful southwestern Virginia earned the paper the 2010 Pulitzer for Public Service.
Daniel is the laminitis of the Fund for Rural Computer-Assisted Reporting astatine the University of Kentucky, which helps wage for journalists astatine tiny quality organizations to person information grooming from the nonprofit Investigative Reporters & Editors. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's grade successful planetary studies.
Joining The Post is simply a homecoming for Daniel, a autochthonal of Manassas whose archetypal occupation successful journalism was arsenic a newsman for the Potomac News and its Spanish-language weekly, Centro de Prince William. Daniel volition determination to the D.C. country with his woman and their 2 young sons successful the caller year.
Please articulation america successful welcoming Daniel to The Post. His archetypal time is Nov. 14.
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