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Elizabeth McGowan
Elizabeth H. McGowan (born April 15, 1961) is an American journalist and author. With David Hasemyer and Lisa Song, McGowan won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their report on the Kalamazoo River oil spill.
She has worked as a freelance reporter and her work has been published by numerous newspapers, digital-outlets, and magazines such as, Grist magazine; Yale Environment 360; E/The Environmental Magazine; Washingtonian magazine; Intelligent Utility magazine; Outdoor America (magazine of the Izaak Walton League); the journal Appalachia; Capital Community News; the Gulf of Maine Times; Mizzou, the alumni magazine for the University of Missouri; Lore, the magazine of the Milwaukee Public Museum; and Nature Conservancy magazine.
McGowan met her husband, Don Looney, in 1991, when she decided to hike the entire Appalachian Trail after one of many cancer treatments; they married in 1997. Both of them are active volunteers.
McGowan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1961. She earned her Bachelor of Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism in 1983.
In 1985, while living in Burlington, Vermont, she was diagnosed with melanoma, the same type of cancer that had taken her father, Ronald McGowan, who died of melanoma at age 44; she was 24 years old. Doctors removed the melanoma, but in late 1986, the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes, and after removal, she enrolled in a trial of a new drug, interferon, the infusions and treatment lasting for 11 months.
McGowan moved to Wisconsin and began working full-time in December 1987, for the Janesville Gazette. She continued to work even after a follow-up visit revealed that the cancer had returned. In 1989, an x-ray and biopsy confirmed that "little metastases" were present in both of her lungs. That summer, she went through 4 rounds of an experimental cocktail of chemotherapy drugs, called the Dartmouth Regimen. The normal treatment regimen consisted of 3 rounds, but after consulting with her doctors, they agreed to the additional round. She worked for the Gazette until the spring of 1991. That year, after hearing the good news that the cancer was gone, she decided to go to Springer Mountain and the hike the entire Appalachian Trail. McGowan met her husband, Don Looney, on the hike.
McGowan returned to Wisconsin and in the mid-1990s, she worked for 5 years as a reporter for The Times Journal, covering government and writing feature articles. However, in 1994, her fight with cancer returned, this time invading her liver, requiring surgery. She fully recovered.
In August 2000, in celebration of 5-years of being cancer-free, she used her experience to raise funds for the Waukesha Memorial hospital, by riding her bicycle, solo, from coast to coast. She called her trek, "Heals on Wheels."
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Elizabeth McGowan
Elizabeth H. McGowan (born April 15, 1961) is an American journalist and author. With David Hasemyer and Lisa Song, McGowan won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their report on the Kalamazoo River oil spill.
She has worked as a freelance reporter and her work has been published by numerous newspapers, digital-outlets, and magazines such as, Grist magazine; Yale Environment 360; E/The Environmental Magazine; Washingtonian magazine; Intelligent Utility magazine; Outdoor America (magazine of the Izaak Walton League); the journal Appalachia; Capital Community News; the Gulf of Maine Times; Mizzou, the alumni magazine for the University of Missouri; Lore, the magazine of the Milwaukee Public Museum; and Nature Conservancy magazine.
McGowan met her husband, Don Looney, in 1991, when she decided to hike the entire Appalachian Trail after one of many cancer treatments; they married in 1997. Both of them are active volunteers.
McGowan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1961. She earned her Bachelor of Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism in 1983.
In 1985, while living in Burlington, Vermont, she was diagnosed with melanoma, the same type of cancer that had taken her father, Ronald McGowan, who died of melanoma at age 44; she was 24 years old. Doctors removed the melanoma, but in late 1986, the cancer had spread to her lymph nodes, and after removal, she enrolled in a trial of a new drug, interferon, the infusions and treatment lasting for 11 months.
McGowan moved to Wisconsin and began working full-time in December 1987, for the Janesville Gazette. She continued to work even after a follow-up visit revealed that the cancer had returned. In 1989, an x-ray and biopsy confirmed that "little metastases" were present in both of her lungs. That summer, she went through 4 rounds of an experimental cocktail of chemotherapy drugs, called the Dartmouth Regimen. The normal treatment regimen consisted of 3 rounds, but after consulting with her doctors, they agreed to the additional round. She worked for the Gazette until the spring of 1991. That year, after hearing the good news that the cancer was gone, she decided to go to Springer Mountain and the hike the entire Appalachian Trail. McGowan met her husband, Don Looney, on the hike.
McGowan returned to Wisconsin and in the mid-1990s, she worked for 5 years as a reporter for The Times Journal, covering government and writing feature articles. However, in 1994, her fight with cancer returned, this time invading her liver, requiring surgery. She fully recovered.
In August 2000, in celebration of 5-years of being cancer-free, she used her experience to raise funds for the Waukesha Memorial hospital, by riding her bicycle, solo, from coast to coast. She called her trek, "Heals on Wheels."