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Gabriel Sherman

People · 1979–

Gabriel Sherman

Vanity Fair correspondent who wrote the Roger Ailes biography and The Apprentice screenplay.

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Gabriel Sherman (born June 16, 1979) is an American journalist, author, and screenwriter specializing in media, politics, and business. A graduate of Middlebury College, he has held editorial roles at publications including New York magazine, where he served as national affairs editor, and contributed to outlets such as The New Republic, GQ, and The New York Times. Currently a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, Sherman focuses on the interplay between media executives and political influence.

Sherman's most notable achievement is his 2014 biography The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News—and Divided a Country, a New York Times bestseller that details the career of Fox News founder Roger Ailes without Ailes's cooperation, drawing on extensive interviews with over 200 sources. The book was adapted into the 2019 Showtime miniseries The Loudest Voice, for which Sherman served as a consulting producer. His reporting on Ailes extended to breaking details of sexual harassment allegations against the executive, contributing to Ailes's 2016 resignation from Fox News amid multiple lawsuits from female employees. Sherman also co-wrote the screenplay for the 2024 film The Apprentice, a biographical drama portraying Donald Trump's mentorship under Roy Cohn in 1970s and 1980s New York real estate.

On August 6, 2011, Sherman married Jennifer Lynne Stahl in Waitsfield, Vermont, during a Jewish ceremony officiated by Cantor Dan Rous at the Round Barn Farm bed and breakfast.

Gabriel Sherman
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