Gosselin briefed National Press Foundation fellows in September 2022: Wealth of Experience, Diminished Returns. 

Peter Gosselin was an economics and investigative reporter for almost 50 years. He started at the smallest daily newspaper in New York State, the Catskill Daily Mail (circulation at the time, 4,007), was on the Spotlight Team at The Boston Globe, a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and a contributing reporter for ProPublica. He did stints in government as chief speechwriter for the Treasury secretary and later a member of the first implementation team for the Affordable Care Act. He was a visiting fellow at the Urban Institute and the author of “High Wire. The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families.” Gosselin has a bachelor’s degree from Brown, where he majored in philosophy, and an MBA in economics from Columbia. He’s a widower with twin children, now 25. Currently, he is a local elected official in Washington, DC.