About

Hey there! I’m Bruce Gil, a freelance journalist covering the intersection of tech, health, and business. Most recently, I was a staff writer at Quartz, where I reported on everything from the streaming wars to the weight-loss drug boom. Whether I was tracking Netflix’s foray into ads or digging into biotech’s latest treatments, I focused on how powerful companies are reshaping the way we live — often in ways that fly under the radar. At Quartz, I balanced writing up to four breaking news stories a day under tight deadlines with producing in-depth features, explainers, newsletters, podcasts, and video content.

Before that, I was a breaking news reporter at The Messenger covering business and finance, and a reporting fellow at FRONTLINE PBS, where I contributed to investigative projects and fact-checked documentaries. I also interned at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and worked on the three-part series “After Ayotzinapa.” Additionally, I helped report a multi-year STAT News investigation into a controversial brain study at Mount Sinai.

I’m a first-generation American of Mexican descent, raised in Las Vegas and trained in New York. I earned my master’s from CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism with a focus on health and Spanish-language reporting.

Contact: brucegil3@gmail.com

Portfolio

As farmworkers face longer, hotter harvest seasons, their risk of heat-related illness grows

Heat-related illness occurs when the body can’t cool itself. Early symptoms include cramps, nausea, fatigue, and headaches. In the most severe cases it can lead to a heat stroke and even death. But despite the risks, many farmworkers have little choice but to keep working in the heat.

The weight loss drug shortage is over — and some patients are 'panicking'

Patients taking the affordable, off-brand versions of popular weight loss drugs made available during shortages are considering their next steps.

Streaming was made to escape ads. Now they're back with a vengeance

Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video and other major streaming services are counting on advertising to become a key and growing revenue source.

Heat waves are getting longer. One state is trying to protect workers most at risk

California became the third state in the country to implement and enforce heat safety protections for indoor workers.

Drug names: Branding a molecule

The corporations and agencies in charge of naming medical discoveries.

Algorithms: A mirror built by data

Recommendation algorithms are everywhere. They constantly suggest us new music, TV shows, dinner, and even potential romantic partners — and for the most part they can be pretty good at predicting what we like. How?

Migrant Teens Worked in Risky Jobs in New Bedford Seafood Processing Plants

The Public’s Radio interviewed more than two dozen migrant teens who described working long hours cutting heads off salmon, picking bones out of cod, and cleaning lobsters in New Bedford seafood processing plants.

After Ayotzinapa

In 2021, I interned at Reveal from Center for Investigative Reporting. While there, I helped produce a 3-part series on the disspearane of 43 college students in Iguala, Mexica in 2014. I assisted Senior Reporter Anayansi Diaz-Cortez by logging and indexing tape including hours of audio diary entries from Mexican Special Prosecutor Omar Gomez Trejo. I also helped assemble and mix early cuts of the series’s episodes, as well as, build newsreel montages and audio scenes.

U.S. Cities and States Are Suing Big Oil Over Climate Change. Here’s What the Claims Say and Where They Stand.

There are at least 20 pending lawsuits filed by cities and states across the U.S., alleging major players in the fossil fuel industry misled the public on climate change to devastating effect.

Rappler and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Maria Ressa Face Legal Setbacks

Rappler, the independent news site co-founded by the Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa and subject of the 2021 FRONTLINE documentary A Thousand Cuts, has been hit with major legal setbacks in recent weeks. In late June, the Philippine government took steps toward shutting down the website. Then, on July 8, the country’s Court of Appeals upheld a cyber-libel conviction against Ressa, Rappler’s CEO.

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