Sheryl Gay Stolberg
American journalist
Sheryl Gay Stolberg (born November 18, 1961) is an American journalist based in Washington, D.C., who covers health policy for The New York Times. She is a former Congressional correspondent and White House correspondent who covered Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and shared in two Pulitzer Prizes while at the Los Angeles Times. She has appeared as a political analyst on ABC, PBS, Fox, MSNBC and WNYC. She is a regular contributor to the news program 1A, which is syndicated on National Public Radio.
Early life and education
While attending the University of Virginia, Stolberg gained her first experience in journalism at The Cavalier Daily, the school's student newspaper, for which she eventually served as executive editor.
Career
Stolberg began her career at The Providence Journal in Providence, Rhode Island, covering local news and police. She joined the Los Angeles Times in 1987, covering local news, and was soon promoted to the newspaper's Metro desk, where she shared in two Pulitzer Prizes won by that newspaper's staff for spot news reporting: one in 1993 for "balanced, comprehensive, penetrating coverage under deadline pressure of the second, most destructive day of the Los Angeles riots," and one in 1995 for coverage "of the chaos and devastation in the aftermath of the Northridge earthquake" of January 1994. In 1995, she moved to the paper's Washington bureau, as a roving domestic policy reporter.
Stolberg joined The New York Times in 1997 as a Washington correspondent, covering science and health policy. She spent five years writing extensively on bioethics issues, including cloning, the death of a gene therapy patient, embryonic stem cell research and an experimental artificial heart. She switched to writing about U.S. politics in 2002, covering Congress, including the Supreme Court confirmations of Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito.
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