Bertram Gabriel III also known as Trip Gabriel is an American journalist, best known for his creation, expansion and direction of the Styles sections" of The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

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Gabriel was born to Helen and Bertram Gabriel Jr. in New York, New York on August 15, 1955. Gabriel attended Phillips Academy

Phillips Academy

Phillips Academy is a selective, co-educational independent boarding high school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, along with a post-graduate year...

 in Andover, MA and Middlebury College

Middlebury College

Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college located in Middlebury, Vermont, USA. Founded in 1800, it is one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States. Drawing 2,400 undergraduates from all 50 United States and over 70 countries, Middlebury offers 44 majors in the arts,...

, where he earned a BA in philosophy.

He worked for various magazines such as Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

, Outside

Outside (magazine)

Outside is an American magazine focused on the outdoors. The first issue debuted in September 1977 with its mission statement declaring that the publication was "dedicated to covering the people, sports and activities, politics, art, literature, and hardware of the outdoors..."Its founders were...

, and GQ

GQ (magazine)

GQ is a monthly men's magazine focusing on fashion, style, and culture for men, through articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, travel, sports, technology, and books...

before taking a job at the Times in 1994 as a reporter for the Sunday Styles section. Eventually, he rose to assume the role of head editor of the section and also worked as the director of fashion news. Under his direction, the once struggling Styles section grew and developed into a multifaceted presentation of fashion, lifestyle, entertainment and celebrity news. Largely due to its success, the section split into two separate issues in 2006 with a separate section on both Thursdays and Sundays.

After 12 years guiding Styles, in February, 2010, Gabriel left to return to reporting, with plans to concentrate on education enterprise pieces. In January, 2011, Gabriel contributed reporting to a Times story about the Pima Community College

Pima Community College

Pima Community College is an American two-year institution of higher education in Pima County, Arizona serving the Tucson metropolitan area. The community college district consists of six campuses, four education centers, and several adult education learning centers. It provides traditional and...

's difficult interactions with 2011 Tucson shooting

2011 Tucson shooting

On January 8, 2011, a mass shooting occurred near Tucson, Arizona. Nineteen people were shot, six of them fatally, with one other person injured at the scene during an open meeting that U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was holding with members of her constituency in a Casas Adobes Safeway...

s suspect, Jared L. Loughner.

Gabriel currently lives in Westchester, New York.