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 Gabriel Sherman is a contributing editor at New York Magazine and a special correspondent for the New Republic. His reporting has gone inside major media organizations and Wall Street firms. In February 2009, his New York Magazine feature "Clash of the Utopias" told the saga of the $5.4 billion acquisition of the massive housing complex Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, which at the time was the largest real-estate deal in American history. His profile "The Legacy" told the story of Jared Kushner, the 28-year-old real-estate mogul and New York Observer publisher who was forced to carry his family's billion dollar real-estate empire on his shoulders after his father was sentenced to federal prison. Sherman's March 2008 cover story, "Testing Horace Mann," was a finalist for the Livingston Award.
At the New Republic, Sherman's most recent cover story, "Post Apocalypse," chronicled the rise and fall of the Washington Post. In December 2008, he wrote a series of articles that uncovered that Herman Rosenblat's Oprah-hyped Holocaust memoir was a hoax. His February 2008 investigation revealed the internal newsroom debate at the New York Times over the paper's decision to publish a controversial piece that alleged that the Republican presidential candidate John McCain had had an affair with the telecommunications lobbyist, Vicki Iseman. Previously, Sherman was the media reporter at the New York Observer, where he reported extensively on the New York Times, including the paper's flawed coverage of Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction and the decision to delay publishing its NSA wiretapping exclusive for more than a year. He reported on Judith Miller's standoff with Times editors and reporters, and ultimately sat down for her first interview on the eve of her resignation from the paper. From 2006-2007, Sherman was a staff writer at Conde Nast Portfolio. He has served as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, ABC World News and National Public Radio, and his journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Slate, GQ, the Atlantic, Wired, Outside Magazine and National Geographic Adventure, among other publications. A competitive runner, he has run six marathons and finished the 2003 New York City Marathon in 2:56:29. He has also run up the stairs of the Empire State Building in 13:26. Born in Newton, MA, Sherman grew up outside Washington D.C and later in Westport, CT. He attended Middlebury College, and currently lives in New York City. // Site designed by Daniella Zalcman. Photo by Cronin Hill. | |