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Gilbert M. Gaul is an American journalist. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes and been a finalist for three others.
Gaul was born in Jersey City and grew up in Kearny, New Jersey. He attended St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, NJ, where he was a state champion in the javelin throw. He graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1973 and shortly thereafter started his career as a journalist.
Gaul worked at the Lehighton Times-News in Lehighton, Pennsylvania, before moving to The Pottsville Republican in the anthracite coal region. There, he teamed with Elliot Jaspin on a five-part series on the collapse of the huge Blue Coal Corporation, once one of the largest producers of soft coal. For their efforts, they shared the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, citing "stories on the destruction of the Blue Coal Company by men with ties to organized crime", among other national reporting awards. In 1980, Gaul worked for the Philadelphia Bulletin covering Atlantic City, which recently had added casino gaming. He returned to Pottsville a year later and worked on a series detailing millions in waste in the county government, which won a National Headliners Award for investigative reporting.
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