Gabriel Dance is a journalist and editor working at the cutting edge of digital news. He began his career in 2006 at The New York Times, eventually serving as chief multimedia producer. After more than four years creating award-winning projects, Dance left the Times to help launch the iPad-only news source, The Daily, as art director for news.
Dance joined The Guardian as interactive editor in 2012. Based in New York City, he helped launch the Guardian US, building a graphics team that garnered awards and recognition for interactive storytelling. He was part of a group of journalists who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of widespread secret surveillance by the National Security Agency.
Dance’s work has also won an Emmy award, an Alfred L. DuPont award, a World Press Photo award, and several awards from the Online News Association, the Society for News Design, and Malofiej, the premier information graphics competition.