Lauren Gilger
Host - The ShowLauren Gilger is an award-winning journalist whose work has impacted communities large and small, exposing injustices and giving a voice to the voiceless and marginalized. She is dedicated to building community through storytelling and believes everyone has a story to tell.
Gilger worked as an investigative producer and reporter for ABC15 News in Phoenix after earning her master’s degree in broadcast journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2011, where she was named Outstanding Graduate Student.
She was the recipient of the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013 after her work forced one of the world’s largest automakers to recall more than 700,000 SUVs.
Her work has uncovered the systemic separation of immigrant families in the detention system, put pressure on the FDA to review a controversial form of birth control that has injured women worldwide, and exposed the backlog of untested rape kits in the country’s sixth-largest metro area.
In the Valley, Gilger has worked as a contributor for the Phoenix New Times and a clerk at the East Valley Tribune. Nationally, her work has appeared in the Washington Post and on ABC’s Nightline.
She earned her undergraduate degree from Fordham University, studying French, visual arts and American Catholic studies.
Journalism is in Gilger’s blood. She grew up in newsrooms as her mother worked at newspapers across the country.
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A judge has dismissed a lawsuit by environmentalists that would have made the San Pedro River a state-regulated Active Management Area, or AMA. -
President-Elect Donald Trump will be sworn in next week, with promises of mass deportations and tariffs in tow, and our neighbors to the South are preparing for it all. Nina Kravinksy has been covering it all from KJZZ's Hermosillo bureau in Sonora, Mexico, and joined The Show to discuss. -
Lawmakers are back at the state Capitol and a new legislative session has begun, with an emboldened GOP in control of both chambers — and up against a Democratic governor. -
A new investigation by The Associated Press and Chalkbeat found that Native American students are more likely to be chronically absent from school — way more likely. -
The last time it rained in Phoenix was 145 days ago, which means we are in the third longest dry streak in our city’s history. When it comes to our city’s water supply, it doesn’t really matter — at least not yet. -
Monarch butterflies are on their way to the endangered species list. Will it be enough to save them?Late last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took an important step toward putting the monarch butterfly on the endangered species list. The initial petition to do it came out over a decade ago. -
Arizona’s marijuana market slump is happening for a few reasons, one of which could be that unregulated intoxicating hemp products that are being sold outside of dispensaries. -
There are a lot of influencers on social media who show us all where to eat and what to do in the Valley of the Sun. But, Destiny Liley does it a little differently. -
When President-elect Donald Trump came to Arizona last month to celebrate his win, he announced his support for someone who didn’t get it in her bid for governor a few years ago: Karrin Taylor Robson. Then, Trump backed Taylor Robson’s GOP primary opponent, Kari Lake. And, at the time, Taylor Robson didn’t want the former president’s support. Oh, how the times have changed. -
Vaccine skepticism doesn’t only come from the far right. Author and dietician Christy Harrison says online wellness influencers who question the establishment come from both sides of the political spectrum.
