:Draft:Guy Gugliotta

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{{Infobox person

| name = Guy Gugliotta

| image = Guy Gugliotta_2025.jpg

| education = Columbia University BA, MIA

| occupation = Writer

| employer = Washington Post, Miami Herald, UPI

| notable_works = Grant's Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan, Swift Boats at War in Vietnam, Freedom's Cap, Kings of Cocaine

| awards = Freedom’s Cap, Kirkus A Best Nonfiction Book of the Year (2012),

Investigative Reporters and Editors award (1989) w/Jeff Leen,

Sigma Delta Chi Award (1989) w/Jeff Leen,

Maria Moors Cabot Prize Gold Medal (1987),

Penney-Missouri Award (1986),

Nieman Fellow Harvard University (1982)

}}

Guy Gugliotta is an award-winning American journalist and author, based in New York City. He is the author and/or editor of four books: Grant's Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan.{{Cite web |title=Grant's Enforcer |url=https://ugapress.org/book/9780820373362/grants-enforcer/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Georgia Press |language=en-US}}, Swifts Boats at War in Vietnam{{Cite web |title=Swift Boats at War in Vietnam |url=https://www.globepequot.com/9780811719599/swift-boats-at-war-in-vietnam/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Globe Pequot |language=en-GB}}, Freedom's Cap: The Building of the Modern U.S. Capitol,1850-1863 {{Cite web |title=Freedom's Cap |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780809046836/freedomscap/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Macmillan Publishers |language=en-US}}, and Kings of Cocaine {{Cite book |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Kings-of-Cocaine/Guy-Gugliotta/9781982107246 |title=Kings of Cocaine |date=2018-06-30 |isbn=978-1-9821-0724-6 |language=en |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240616212311/https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Kings-of-Cocaine/Guy-Gugliotta/9781982107246 |archive-date=2024-06-16 |last1=Gugliotta |first1=Guy |publisher=Simon & Schuster }} and reported and wrote for The Washington Post, Miami Herald, and United Press International. He has also written for the New York Times and many magazines, including Smithsonian (magazine), Wired (magazine), Discover (magazine), The New Republic, Air & Space/Smithsonian, and National Geographic.

Career

Gugliotta graduated {{Cite web |title=Class of 1967 |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/annualreport/2016/givingback/donors/1967 |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Columbia College Report |language=en}}from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1967. Drafted three months before graduation, he spent two years as a division and watch officer aboard an Atlantic Fleet destroyer and a year as Officer-in-Charge of a river patrol boat (Swift Boat) in the Mekong Delta. He was awarded three Bronze Stars, two with a combat V{{Cite web |date=1981-04-29 |title=The Bob Considine Award 1980 |url=https://opcofamerica.org/Awardarchive/bob-considine-award-1980/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=OPC |language=en-US}}.

After Vietnam, Gugliotta returned to Columbia and earned{{Cite web |title=University Record 13 November 1987 — Columbia Record |url=https://curecordarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cr19871113-01.2.14&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=curecordarchive.library.columbia.edu}} a master degree in International Affairs at the Columbia University School of International Affairs (later School of International and Public Affairs) in 1973. He worked for United Press International for six years: as a reporter and editor for the New York local desk; then as UPI’s Caribbean News Editor based in Puerto Rico{{Cite web |title=Dec 26, 1976, page 249 - The Miami Herald at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/626905302/?match=1&terms=Guy%20Gugliotta |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}; its chief correspondent in Argentina, where he covered the Dirty War{{Cite web |title=Oct 11, 1978, page 15 - The Miami Herald at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/628212069/?match=1&terms=Guy%20Gugliotta |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}; and as news editor for Brazil{{Cite web |title=Jul 15, 1978, page 145 - The Miami Herald at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/628142677/?match=1&terms=Guy%20Gugliotta |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}. In late 1978, he joined the Latin America Desk of the Miami Herald, covering the Sandinista Revolution{{Cite web |title=Jul 20, 1979, page 145 - The Miami Herald at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/628305575/?match=1&terms=Guy%20Gugliotta |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}, Argentina's Falkland Islands War{{Cite web |title=Jun 11, 1982, page 20 - The Miami Herald at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/630064132/?match=1&terms=Guy%20Gugliotta |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}} and World Cup Soccer{{Cite web |title=Jun 15, 1986, page 647 - The Miami Herald at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/631266829/?match=1&terms=Guy%20Gugliotta |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}} Championships and was the first U.S. correspondent for a major newspaper to report and write extensively about the Colombian cocaine cartels. He also covered Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1978-1979, the Iran hostage crisis, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan{{Cite web |title=Jan 14, 1980, page 1 - The Miami Herald at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/628571088/?match=1&terms=Guy%20Gugliotta |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}, and sectarian violence in Northern Ireland{{Cite web |title=May 10, 1981, page 534 - The Miami Herald at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/629217940/?match=1&terms=Guy%20Gugliotta |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}.

In 1990 Gugliotta joined the National Desk{{Cite web |title=Guy Gugliotta {{!}} C-SPAN.org |url=https://www.c-span.org/person/guy-gugliotta/17686/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=www.c-span.org}} of The Washington Post where he covered the 1990-91 Gulf War{{Cite news |last=Gugliotta |first=Guy |date=1991-01-15 |title=WAITING ON THE EDGE |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/01/15/waiting-on-the-edge/8a34003f-4959-4a10-9cb5-4d976ab3186e/?isMobile=1 |access-date=2025-04-17 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}, Congress, science and space, agriculture{{Cite news |last=Gugliotta |first=Guy |date=1990-11-15 |title=FARMERS STRIVE FOR A LEANER PIG AND A FITTER IMAGE |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/11/15/farmers-strive-for-a-leaner-pig-and-a-fitter-image/fe2adc5c-4d49-4773-b511-911950e08fc0/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}, poverty and urban issues {{Cite news |last=Gugliotta |first=Guy |date=1993-02-24 |title=MOVING OUT OF POVERTY BY MOVING OUT OF TOWN |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/02/24/moving-out-of-poverty-by-moving-out-of-town/7ae1c187-4aaa-49ba-a73f-c6d4f449a8bd/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}} and wrote a weekly humor column{{Cite news |last=Gugliotta |first=Guy |date=1994-05-10 |title=Capital Notebook |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/05/10/capital-notebook/50e4f75d-eaf5-4387-aaf6-a9fae322a1b1/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}. He was a lead reporter during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton{{Cite news |last1=Gugliotta |first1=Guy |last2=Eilperin |first2=Juliet |date=1998-11-25 |title=PERJURY CHARGE FACES CLOSE VOTE |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/11/25/perjury-charge-faces-close-vote/2668063b-0f70-4f9e-86a5-3a162c141f53/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}, the House Banking scandal{{Cite news |last=Gugliotta |first=Guy |date=1992-03-23 |title=HOUSE 'BANK' WAS ONE IN NAME ONLY |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/03/23/house-bank-was-one-in-name-only/643e1cb1-f7cc-44fd-a743-4b8d1e855d93/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}} and the resignation of House Speaker Newt Gingrich{{Cite news |last1=Gugliotta |first1=Guy |last2=Eilperin |first2=Juliet |date=1998-11-07 |title=GINGRICH STEPS DOWN AS SPEAKER IN FACE OF HOUSE GOP REBELLION |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1998/11/07/gingrich-steps-down-as-speaker-in-face-of-house-gop-rebellion/b41d8069-0d29-407d-ad72-98ff524dcd97/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}. On September 11, 2001, he wrote The Post’s front page extra{{Cite news |last=Gugliotta |first=Guy |date=2001-09-11 |title=N.Y. Skyscrapers Collapse After Hijacked Planes Hit |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/09/11/ny-skyscrapers-collapse-after-hijacked-planes-hit/00a0ffb3-e748-4d9a-971e-eec0424e4b8a/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}} during the first hours after the World Trade Center attacks. He covered NASA following the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster{{Cite news |last1=Gugliotta |first1=Guy |last2=Weiss |first2=Rick |date=2003-02-17 |title=Dangers of Gauging Space Safety |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/02/17/dangers-of-gauging-space-safety/a9680bb4-8669-48f3-8fc1-677ef3c22659/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}.

As a freelance writer and author since 2006, Gugliotta has traveled in the US, Latin America, and Africa, writing on the challenges of American health care{{Cite news |last=Gugliotta |first=Guy |date=2013-11-30 |title=Michigan embracing Medicaid expansion to help inmates |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/michigan-embracing-medicaid-expansion-to-help-inmates/2013/11/30/61a94a80-592d-11e3-ba82-16ed03681809_story.html |access-date=2025-04-17 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}, cheetahs in the Namibian wild{{Cite web |title=Rare Breed |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rare-breed-20811232/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}}, a prehistoric school-bus sized snake in Colombia,{{Cite web |title=How Titanoboa, the 40-Foot-Long Snake, Was Found |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-titanoboa-the-40-foot-long-snake-was-found-115791429/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}} and the moons of Saturn {{Cite news |last=Gugliotta |first=Guy |date=2010-04-19 |title=A Saturn Spectacular, With Gravity's Help |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/science/space/20cassini.html |access-date=2025-04-14 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}.

Awards, Fellowships and Service

2006-2021: American Association for the Advancement of Science. Judge for the AAAS annual science journalism awards.

2014: Santa Fe Institute. Science Journalism Fellow in residence.{{Cite web |title=Journalism Fellowship {{!}} Santa Fe Institute |url=https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/journalism-fellowship |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=www.santafe.edu |language=en}}

2012: Freedom’s Cap named a Best Nonfiction Book of the year by Kirkus.{{Cite web |title=Best Nonfiction of 2012 |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-lists/best-nonfiction-2012/#freedoms-cap |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}

2008-2009: Capitol Historical Society Fellow for research for Freedom’s Cap.{{Cite web |title=Capitol Fellowship Recipients {{!}} U.S. Capitol Historical Society |url=https://capitolhistory.org/engage/capitol-fellowship/capitol-fellowship-recipients/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=United States Capitol Historical Society |language=en-US}}

1989: Investigative Reporters and Editors award with Jeff Leen for a newspaper series on the Medellín Cartel.{{Cite web |date=2020-04-16 |title=1987 IRE Award winners - IRE |url=https://www.ire.org/awards/ire-awards/winners/1987-ire-award-winners |access-date=2025-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416150326/https://www.ire.org/awards/ire-awards/winners/1987-ire-award-winners |archive-date=16 April 2020 }}

1989: Sigma Delta Chi Award. Investigative Reporting with Jeff Leen on the Medellín Cartel.{{Cite web |title=Mar 31, 1988, page 561 - The Miami Herald at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/632966621/?match=1&terms=Guy%20Gugliotta%20and%20%22sigma%20delta%20chi%22 |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}

1987: Maria Moors Cabot Prize Gold Medal from Columbia University for reporting from Latin America.

1986: Penney-Missouri Award for best single newspaper story. Tracing the paths of two illegal immigrants from Latin America to working class Queens, N.Y.{{Cite web |last=Yumpu.com |title=Penney-Missouri Journalism Awards, Records, 1960-1993, (C4050) |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/6888536/penney-missouri-journalism-awards-records-1960-1993-c4050 |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=yumpu.com |language=en}}

1985: Alicia Patterson Foundation, fellowship to study Argentina’s Dirty War.{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=A. P. F. |date=1985-01-05 |title=20th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 1985 - APF Staff |url=https://aliciapatterson.org/apf/20th-annual-competition-fellowship-winners-for-1985/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Alicia Patterson Foundation |language=en-US}}

1982-83: Nieman Fellowship, Harvard University.{{Cite web |title=Alphabetical List by Class Year |url=https://nieman.harvard.edu/alumni/nieman-fellows-by-class-year/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Nieman Foundation |language=en-US}}

1981: Overseas Press Club Bob Considine Award. News analysis on Central and South America, Iran.{{Cite news |date=1981-04-30 |title=Foreign Reporting Cited By Overseas Press Club |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/30/world/foreign-reporting-cited-by-overseas-press-club.html |access-date=2025-04-17 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

1978: Tom Wallace Award, Inter-American Press Association. Human rights abuses in Argentina{{Cite web |title=Oct 11, 1978, page 15 - The Miami Herald at Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/628212069/?match=1&terms=Guy |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}

1970: Three Bronze Stars, two with a combat V

Personal Life

Gugliotta is married{{Cite web |last=Media |first=Common |date=1998-03-15 |title=Response: Narratives and Analysis |url=https://niemanreports.org/response-narratives-and-analysis/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Nieman Reports |language=en-US}} to Carla Robbins, a university professor and journalist specializing in U.S. defense policy and foreign affairs who has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes. Their daughter Annie Gugliotta {{Cite web |title=Anne Luz Gugliotta |url=https://www.annegugliotta.com/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Anne Luz Gugliotta |language=en-US}}is a visual designer.

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