Sheryl Gay Stolberg (born November 18, 1961[1]) is an American journalist based in Washington, D.C., who covers health policy for The New York Times.
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.
She joined the Los Angeles Times[5] 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.
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.
In 2017, Stolberg returned to Capitol Hill to chronicle Congress during the presidency of Donald Trump, but was reassigned to write about the intersection of health, policy and politics during the COVID-19 pandemic.