Elizabeth McGowan


Elizabeth H. McGowan is an American journalist. With David Hasemyer and Lisa Song, McGowan won a 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their report on the Kalamazoo River oil spill.

Biography

McGowan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1961. She earned her Bachelor of Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism in 1983.
After graduating, McGowan worked as a journalist at several newspapers in Wisconsin and Vermont, during which she was diagnosed with melanoma. McGowan would later write a book on her experience with cancer titled Outpedaling the Big C: My Healing Cycle Across America. One of her journalistic reports during this time, H-2B: A Question of Labor, received the 2007 Cleveland Press Club's Ohio Excellence in Journalism Awards.
In 2010, McGowan joined the staff of InsideClimate News, a non-profit news organization, as their Washington, D.C. correspondent. During her tenure with InsideClimate, she won a 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with David Hasemyer and Lisa Song for their report on the Kalamazoo River oil spill. As well, her book on the same topic received the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award.

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