Gabriel Spitzer
Editor
About
Gabriel Spitzer is an editor working with the newsroom and the Sound Politics team. He has worked in just about every editorial role in newsrooms from NPR to WBEZ to Alaska Public Radio Network. For his health and science coverage, Gabriel has been honored with the Kavli Science Journalism Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has launched multiple programs and podcasts, including Transmission from KNKX – one of the first podcasts about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gabriel received his Master's of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
Location: Seattle
Languages spoken: English, some French
Pronouns: he/him
Podcasts
Stories
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Politics
Is this the year rent limits pass?
For years, progressives have tried to fight the rising cost of living by instituting a kind of "rent control" – what proponents call "rent stabilization." There’s buzz this year that a rent stabilization bill could safely parachute onto the Governor’s desk.
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Politics
Republicans' unlikely ally: Gov. Ferguson
Republicans might have more influence this legislative session than they have in almost a decade. A big reason why is Governor Bob Ferguson. The newly elected Democrat has been warmer toward the GOP point of view than the previous administration was, pushing to close the state’s budget deficit through cuts rather than raising more revenue from taxes. That’s a welcome change for Rep. Travis Couture, the Republicans’ lead budget wrangler in the state House. He says Ferguson has been more aligned with, and welcoming of, Republican ideas than his predecessor was – but just how much actual power the Republican caucus will have over the final product remains to be seen.
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Politics
The graveyard shift: lessons from WA's dead bills (so far)
It’s an old saw in Olympia: A lawmaker’s job is not so much to pass good bills, but to kill bad ones (because there are just a lot of bad ones). Good or bad, this time of year is “Bill Killing Season” at the state capitol, having just passed two deadlines for the hundreds of policy and fiscal bills introduced this session.
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Politics
Washington stares into the (budget) abyss
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Global Health
New data sheds light — and raises objections — on COVID-19 origins
New data samples from the Wuhan market points to an intermingling of SARS-CoV-2, raccoon dogs and humans. The authors of a new paper say it bolsters the animal origin theory. Other researchers object.
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Health
New research points to raccoon dogs in Wuhan market as pandemic trigger. It's controversial
With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that infected humans. Proponents of the lab leak theory are dubious.
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Race & Identity
Navy exonerates 256 Black sailors unjustly punished over 1944 port explosion
Fifty Black sailors were convicted of mutiny after a massive Naval disaster during World War II. This week the Navy finally cleared their names.
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Science
Sisters make peace with dark memories through art, science and each other
Two sisters found they had different recollections of a traumatic childhood experience and learned that human memory is a lot less reliable than we tend to think.
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Arts & Life
After childhood trauma, sisters use art and science to explore how memory can morph
Two sisters struggled to remember troubling childhood events until adulthood. A neuroscientist and author gave them the science and the language to turn their work into a dance performance and a book.
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Health
Humanitarian crises abound. Why is the U.N. asking for less aid money than last year?
"This is the first time that this has happened in recent years," said Martin Griffiths of the United Nations. about the reduced ask. Why in a time of greater need is the U.N. lowering its appeal?
