Kathleen Gallagher

Kathleen Gallagher is a journalist and lecturer in journalism who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2011. She was formerly a communications consultant and writing instructor.

Education

Gallagher earned her Bachelors in Journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her MA in English from the University of Illinois.[1] She studied Creative Writing at Kent State University.

Professional history

From 1990 to 1993, Gallagher held the role of Communications Consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and was also a Writing Instructor at the American Institute of Banking in Chicago. Following that, she began working as a business reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.[2]

Journalism

While Gallagher worked at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, she undertook several investigations. They included: the investigation of a multistate cattle Ponzi scheme operator, travelling by helicopter with professional investors to visit oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, and reporting on a firm selling stem cell-derived heart cells to pharmaceutical companies. She covers investments, life sciences and other emerging, high-growth industries in the Wisconsin area.[3]

In 2011, Gallagher won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting with Mark Johnson, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar, and Alison Sherwood for their “lucid examination of an epic effort to use genetic technology to save a 4-year-old boy imperiled by a mysterious disease, told with words, graphics, videos and other images.”[4] The title was: ‘One in a Billion: A Boy’s Life, a Medical Mystery.’[5] In 2007, she received an Honorable Mention for her piece entitled ‘Cutting Storm’ in the Writer’s Digest competition of that year.[6]

Related areas of expertise

In addition to her journalistic career, Gallagher is a senior lecturer at the University of Akron/Wayne College in English. She has written poetry and created collages. Her work ‘Bone Collage,’ was posted in the September 2011 Hospital Drive: The literature and humanities journal of the University of Virginia School of Medicine.[7] Her collage ‘One Woman,’ was used as a cover for Pushcart nominee writer Michelle Reale’s book If All They Had Were Their Bodies, published by Burning River Press.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Jennifer Egan wins fiction Pulitzer". USA Today. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Kathleen Gallagher Business reporter at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel". LinkedIn. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Awards ranging from journalism to fiction to music". Infoplease. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "Mark Johnson, Kathleen Gallagher, Gary Porter, Lou Saldivar and Alison Sherwood". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Kathleen Gallagher". Long Form Archive. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "kathleen d. gallagher". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "Bone Collage". Hospital Drive Archive. September 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "Pulitzer Prize: Updated March 2015". University of Wisconsin--Madison. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
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