Elizabeth McGowan
Elizabeth H. McGowan (born April 15, 1961)[1][2] is an American journalist and author.[3] With David Hasemyer and Lisa Song, McGowan won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their report on the Kalamazoo River oil spill.[4]
Elizabeth McGowan
April 15, 1961
BJ, 1983, University of Missouri
Journalist
Don Looney
She has worked as a freelance reporter and her work has been published by numerous newspapers, digital-outlets, and magazines such as, Grist magazine; Yale Environment 360; E/The Environmental Magazine; Washingtonian magazine; Intelligent Utility magazine; Outdoor America (magazine of the Izaak Walton League); the journal Appalachia; Capital Community News; the Gulf of Maine Times; Mizzou, the alumni magazine for the University of Missouri; Lore, the magazine of the Milwaukee Public Museum; and Nature Conservancy magazine.[3][5]
McGowan met her husband, Don Looney, in 1991, when she decided to hike the entire Appalachian Trail after one of many cancer treatments; they married in 1997.[6] Both of them are active volunteers.[7][8]
According to a list of reporting awards on the Renewal News website, the “Dilbit Disaster” series also won a digital media reporting award from the Deadline Club, the New York Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and honorable mention in the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Reporting presented at Columbia University.[32]