Sheryl Gay Stolberg is a Washington Correspondent covering health policy. In more than two decades at The Times, she has also covered the White House, Congress and national politics. Previously, at The Los Angeles Times, she shared in two Pulitzer Prizes won by that newspaper’s Metro staff.

Ms. Stolberg joined The Times in 1997 to cover health policy, and spent five years writing extensively on bioethics issues like the death of a gene therapy patient and an experimental artificial heart.  She became a Congressional correspondent in 2002, and went on to cover the White House during the presidencies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. As a national political features writer in 2012, Ms. Stolberg was a lead author of The Times’s Long Run series of biographical profiles of that year’s Republican presidential contenders, including Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney. 

As mid-Atlantic bureau chief from 2015 to 2017, she focused on America’s cities, notably Baltimore, covering issues of race and policing surrounding the death of Freddie Gray. She returned to covering Congress in 2017 but switched to health coverage in 2020, amid the coronavirus crisis.

At The Los Angeles Times, Ms. Stolberg shared in two Pulitzer Prizes won by that newspaper’s Metro staff, for coverage of the 1992 riots that followed the acquittal of four police officers in the beating of Rodney King, and the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake. At The New York Times, she shared in a 2009 Gerald Loeb Award for financial journalism, for coverage of President George W. Bush’s role in the mortgage meltdown, as part of a 2008 series, The Reckoning.