Gabrielle Coppola is a business and economics reporter living in Detroit, Michigan. She has covered the US auto industry for eight years, writing about everything from labor strikes and autonomous technology to the growth of protectionism and the rise of China’s car industry. She has a special interest in battery technology and the intersection of electrification, geopolitics, and industrial policy. She has reported from Japan, China and South Korea as well as the US to produce award-winning feature stories for Bloomberg Businessweek magazine and Bloomberg News on the topic.

Prior to the auto beat, she wrote about Israel’s startup scene, served as a foreign correspondent in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and cut her teeth as a reporter covering the meltdown of U.S credit markets in the 2008 financial crisis.  Her work has appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets Magazine, CNNMoney, and the Wall Street Journal. 

Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, she moved to New York to find her Jewish-Italian roots somewhere between the Gowanus Canal and Sheepshead Bay. She has lived in Detroit since 2019 with her partner and a Brazilian cat named Tutu, and has enjoyed breaking out of the coastal media bubble to report from the industrial Midwest. Prior to becoming a journalist, she did communications work for the AFL-CIO and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, nurturing a life-long curiosity about the roots of economic inequality and proposed solutions.