Dominic Gates

Dominic Gates is an Irish-American aerospace journalist who covered Boeing and the aviation industry for The Seattle Times from 2003 until his retirement in March 2025. He is best known as a co-recipient of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for his team's groundbreaking coverage of design flaws in the Boeing 737 MAX and failures in FAA oversight that led to two fatal crashes. He now writes independently.