Gabriel Spitzer
Gabriel Spitzer is a former KNKX reporter, producer and host who worked on the weekly show Sound Effect.
Gabriel was previously KNKX's Science and Health Reporter. He joined KNKX in 2012 after covering science, health and the environment at WBEZ in Chicago. There, he created the award-winning mini-show, Clever Apes. He previously was a reporter and host for the Alaska Public Radio Network.
Gabriel received his Master's of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and his degree in English at Cornell University. He’s been honored with the Kavli Science Journalism Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and won awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists and Public Radio News Directors, Inc.
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This story originally aired on June 29, 2019.It’s 1985 — think New Coke and “We Are the World” — and little 8-year-old Gabe is shivering on the tile floor…
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Thousands marched peacefully from Seattle’s Capitol Hill to City Hall on Wednesday, chanting demands to “defund the police.” The demonstrators gathered at…
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Washington state health officials say they’re watching carefully to see whether crowded protests will contribute to a spike in COVID-19 cases.Heath…
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We are a country wracked by illness, by economic crisis, and by tears in our social fabric that have existed all along, but are too gaping to ignore, once…
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This story originally aired on June 8, 2019.No, Thomas Crapper didn’t invent the modern flushing toilet. Airplanes don’t directly dump “blue ice” and…
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This story originally aired on June 8, 2019.Mark Lloyd pops his trunk and pulls out his supplies: kitty litter, a small military surplus tent, toilet…
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New research suggests the nation’s first reported coronavirus case — a Snohomish County resident — was not the source of the outbreak in Washington, as…
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This story originally aired on June 1, 2019. In 2018, Seattleite Chris Jeckel decided it was time to visit Tokyo. He had just ended a four-year…
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This story originally aired on June 1, 2019. When J.J. Harrison fell down in front of a charging, 2,000-pound bull in Hobbs, New Mexico, everything seemed…
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This story originally aired on June 1, 2019. Krystal Marx is a City Council member in Burien. Her husband James is an Iraq War veteran. They’ve both…