Ryan Gabrielson is a staff writer for the East Valley Tribune where he has covered higher education, state and local government, and special projects. During his career, his investigative and computer assisted reporter has uncovered major financial and academic fraud in Arizona’s largest community college system and corruption in south Texas public construction. He studied journalism at the University of Arizona and has won multiple state and national awards, including a Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative reporting.

Paul Giblin covers federal affairs, politics and immigration for the East Valley Tribune in Mesa, Ariz. He has worked at the newspaper since 1995 and at various times during that tenure, he has served as the Scottsdale Bureau chief, metro columnist and as a business reporter.

Overall, Giblin has 24 years of experience reporting for newspapers in Arizona, Hawaii and New Mexico. His work has appeared in The New York Times and The Dallas Morning News, among other publications.

He has won numerous journalism awards, including the Arizona Press Club’s first place awards for politics and government reporting in 2005, the Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors association’s first place awards for news columns and feature columns in 2004, and the Arizona Newspapers Association’s Freedom of Information Award in 2004. Giblin and his wife Sandra, an architect, live in Phoenix. They have two sons, Casey and Tim.