Gabriel Spitzer covers science, health care and the environment for Chicago Public Radio. He recently served a year as interim host of the station’s flagship morning news magazine, Eight Forty-Eight. Since then he has popped into the host chair from time to time, anchoring live special coverage of Super Tuesday, election night and the impeachment of the governor of Illinois.

Prior to joining the staff of Chicago Public Radio in April 2006, Spitzer worked as a reporter, host and associate producer at the Alaska Public Radio Network, where he covered everything from sled dog races to Senate races, from thawing Eskimo villages to demolition derbies. He hosted the award-winning weekly program AK, and produced features and documentaries.

He has contributed stories to Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace, Living on Earth and Latino USA. His print work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee and Anchorage Daily News.

Spitzer won a regional Edward R. Murrow award for best use of sound, and PRNDI awards for Best Documentary and Best News and Public Affairs Show. He has a master’s from the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He lives on the North Side of Chicago with his intended, Ashley Gross, and their new son, Ezra.