Dominic Gates is an Irish-American aerospace journalist for The Seattle Times, former math teacher, and Pulitzer Prize winner.
10 Facts About Dominic Gates
1.
2.
Dominic Gates has been assigned to cover Boeing for The Times since 2003.
3.
Dominic Gates was born in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, as one of six children.
4.
Dominic Gates was educated at St Patrick's Academy in Dungannon and graduated with a mathematics degree from Queen's University, Belfast.
5.
Dominic Gates taught high school mathematics in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe before relocating to the United States.
6.
Dominic Gates was hired by technology magazine The Industry Standard in 2000, but the magazine went out of business 18 months later.
7.
Dominic Gates then joined The Seattle Times in 2003 as an aerospace reporter, covering the local Boeing beat.
8.
Dominic Gates covered the development and launch of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner project and later the Boeing 737 MAX program, including two fatal crashes and the subsequent grounding of the aircraft.
9.
Dominic Gates won critical acclaim for his investigation into the 737 MAX and its automated flight control system, which had been written prior to the second crash.
10.
Dominic Gates is married to Nina Shapiro, a fellow journalist at The Seattle Times whom he met while teaching in Zimbabwe.