Daniel Gilbert joined The Wall Street Journal in October 2010 to cover the oil industry, based in Houston. Previously, he was a staff writer at the Bristol (Va.) Herald Courier, which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his series exposing flaws in Virginia’s administration of natural-gas royalties.

Gilbert, 28, is the founding donor of the Fund for Rural Computer-Assisted Reporting (R-CAR), in partnership with the University of Kentucky’s Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, and Investigative Reporters and Editors. The fund provides fellowships to rural journalists at small news organizations to get training in data analysis.

Prior to moving to Bristol in December 2007, Gilbert freelanced in the U.S. Southwest, Mexico and Washington, D.C. for English and Spanish-language outlets.

Fluent in Spanish and French, Gilbert has written for The Christian Science Monitor, The Dallas Morning News, Reuters, Scripps Howard News Service, The Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Washington Post Co.’s Spanish-language weekly, El Tiempo Latino. 

Gilbert got his start in journalism at the Potomac News in Woodbridge, Va., where he covered immigration. A native of Prince William County, Va., he graduated from the University of Chicago in 2005 with a B.A. in international studies.