Elizabeth McGowan
GUEST CONTRIBUTOR
Pulitzer Prize-winning environmental reporter Elizabeth McGowan joined the staff at The Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism (VCIJ) at WHRO in 2026.
McGowan has written several freelance investigations for VCIJ, covering the environmental hazards of highway construction and probing The Nature Conservancy’s largest and riskiest ecological restoration project in southwest Virginia.
McGowan is based in Washington, D.C., and her coverage focuses on the environment and energy. She won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2013 as a staff correspondent at InsideClimate News. The prize-winning series, “The Dilbit Disaster,” revealed the devastation that an enormous oil spill caused in communities along Michigan’s Kalamazoo River.
