Gilbert M. Gaul

[1] Growing up in nearby Kearny, Gaul attended St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, where he was a state champion in the javelin throw.

He returned to Pottsville a year later and worked on a series detailing millions in waste in the county government, which won a National Headliners Award for investigative reporting.

This award allows winners time to reflect on their careers and focus on honing their skills, at Harvard University, where he studied business, law and public health.

The Inquirer won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service citing "reporting by Gilbert M. Gaul that disclosed how the American blood industry operates with little government regulation or supervision.

In 1994, he was again finalist for the National Reporting Pulitzer, for a series disclosing the explosive growth of non-profit organizations and their impact on the economy and tax laws.

)[5] In 2000, Gaul briefly worked at The New York Times and in 2001 joined the national investigative staff at The Washington Post, where he remained through 2009.

While there, Gaul authored a number of series, including a 2006 detailing $15 billion in waste in federal agricultural subsidies that was a Pulitzer finalist in National Reporting.