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'{{Short description|American journalist (born 1960)}} {{Infobox person | name = David E. Sanger | image = David E. Sanger MSC 2018 (cropped).jpg | caption = Sanger during the [[Munich Security Conference|MSC]] 2018 | occupation = [[Journalist]] | title = Chief Washington Correspondent | employer = ''[[The New York Times]]'' | education = [[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|7|5}} | birth_place = [[White Plains, New York]], U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = Sherill Leonard | notable_works = ''[[Confront and Conceal]]'' | family = [[Elliott Sanger]] (grandfather) }} '''David E. Sanger''' (born July 5, 1960) is an American journalist who is the chief Washington correspondent for ''[[The New York Times]]'', writing since 1982, covering foreign policy, globalization, [[nuclear proliferation]], and the presidency. He has been a member of three teams that won the [[Pulitzer Prize]], and has been awarded numerous honors for national security and foreign policy coverage. He is the author of four books: ''The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/4272029/The-Inheritance-the-World-Obama-Confronts-and-the-Challenges-to-American-Powerby-David-E-Sanger-review.html|title=The Inheritance: the World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power by David E Sanger - review - Telegraph|last=MacArthur|first=Brian|date=17 January 2009|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=1 June 2011}}</ref> ''[[Confront and Conceal|Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power]]'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Sanger|first=David E.|title=Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power|year=2012|publisher=Crown|isbn=978-0307718020|url=https://archive.org/details/confrontconcealo00sang|url-access=registration}}</ref> ''[[The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age]]'', and ''New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Allen |first=Mike |date=2024-01-26 |title=Scoop: David Sanger's "New Cold Wars" explores Biden, China, Russia, Ukraine |url=https://www.axios.com/2024/01/26/biden-china-russia-ukraine-book-sanger |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=[[Axios (website)|Axios]]}}</ref> ==Early life and education== Sanger is the son of Joan S. (assistant coordinator in the [[White Plains Public Schools|White Plains Public School District]]) and Kenneth E. Sanger (product manager for [[International Business Machines]]).<ref name=NYTSherWedding>{{Cite web|title= Sherill Leonard and David Sanger Wed |work=The New York Times|date=June 29, 1987 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/29/style/sherill-leonard-and-david-sanger-wed.html }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1987-04-05 |title=Sherill A. Leonard, Yale Law Student, Engaged to David Sanger, a Reporter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/05/style/sherill-a-leonard-yale-law-student-engaged-to-david-sanger-a-reporter.html |access-date=2024-05-15 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> His paternal grandfather was [[Elliott Sanger]], a co-founder of [[WQXR-FM]], the radio station of ''The New York Times''; and his paternal grandmother was Eleanor Naumburg Sanger (grandniece of banker [[Elkan Naumburg]]), who served as program director of WQXR.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Elliott Sanger, a WQXR Founder And FM Radio Pioneer, Dies at 92|work=The New York Times|date=July 10, 1989 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/10/obituaries/elliott-sanger-a-wqxr-founder-and-fm-radio-pioneer-dies-at-92.html}}</ref><ref name=NYTSherWedding /> He has one sister, Ellin Gail Sanger Agress.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ellin Gail Sanger Is the Bride of Mortimer Agress |work=The New York Times|date=September 29, 1986 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/29/style/ellin-gail-sanger-is-the-bride-of-mortimer-agress.html }}</ref> He graduated from [[White Plains High School|White Plains Senior High School]] in 1978. There, he was editor of ''The Orange'', the student newspaper. He graduated [[magna cum laude|''magna cum laude'']] in government from [[Harvard College]]. ==New York Times career== [[File: David E. Sanger 2011 05.jpg|thumb|175px|David E. Sanger at the Miller Center, May 11, 2011]] David E. Sanger is chief [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] correspondent for ''The New York Times'' and one of the newspaper's senior writers. In a 38-year career at the paper, he has reported from New York, Tokyo, and Washington, specializing in foreign policy, national security, and the politics of globalization. In 1982, after joining ''The New York Times'', Sanger soon began specializing in the confluence of economic and foreign policy.{{cn|date=April 2024}} In 1986 Sanger played a major role in the team that investigated the causes of the [[Space Shuttle Challenger|Space Shuttle ''Challenger'']] disaster. The team revealed the design flaws and bureaucratic troubles that contributed to the disaster and won the 1987 [[Pulitzer Prize]] for national reporting.{{cn|date=April 2024}} Throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s, he wrote extensively about how issues of national wealth and competitiveness came to redefine the relationships between the [[United States]] and its major allies.{{cn|date=April 2024}} He was correspondent and then bureau chief in [[Tokyo]] for six years,{{cn|date=April 2024}} traveling widely in [[Asia]]. He wrote some of the first pieces describing [[North Korea]]’s a nuclear weapons program, the rise and fall of [[Japan]] as one of the world's economic powerhouses, and [[China]]’s emerging role. In 1994, he returned to Washington, as Chief Washington Economic Correspondent, and covered a series of global economic upheavals, from Mexico to the [[Asian economic crisis]].{{cn|date=April 2024}} In March 1999, he was named a senior writer, and White House correspondent later that year.{{cn|date=April 2024}} In 2004, [[Armand Cucciniello]]? Sanger? was awarded, the Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting for his coverage of the Iraq and Korea crises.{{cn|date=April 2024}} He also won the Aldo Beckman prize for coverage of the presidency.{{cn|date=April 2024}} In both 2003 and 2007, Sanger was awarded the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for coverage of national security strategy.{{cn|date=April 2024}} He also shared the [[American Society of Newspaper Editors]]' top award for deadline writing in 2004, for team coverage of the Columbia disaster.{{cn|date=April 2024}} In 2007, ''The New York Times'' received the DuPont Award from the [[Columbia Journalism School]] for ''Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?'', a documentary featuring him and colleague [[William J. Broad]], and their investigation into the [[A.Q. Khan]] nuclear proliferation network. Their revelations in the ''Times'' about the network became a finalist for the [[Pulitzer Prize]].{{cn|date=April 2024}} In 2011, Sanger was part of another team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for International Reporting for their coverage of the [[2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami|Japanese tsunami]] and [[Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster|nuclear disaster]].<ref>{{cite web|title=David E. Sanger|url=http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/s/david_e_sanger/index.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=2012-05-01}}</ref> In 2012, Sanger broke the story that President Obama early in his presidency had secretly commissioned the [[Stuxnet]] cyberattacks on Iranian nuclear facilities;<ref>Sanger, David E. (1 June 2012). [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html "Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran] (March 6, 2012).</ref><ref name=Powers>John Powers, [https://www.npr.org/2016/07/18/486464177/zero-days-documentary-exposes-a-looming-threat-of-the-digital-age 'Zero Days' Documentary Exposes A Looming Threat Of The Digital Age], ''Fresh Air'', NPR, July 18, 2016.</ref> his reporting was depicted in the [[documentary film]] ''[[Zero Days]]'' (2016).<ref name=Powers/><ref>Ann Hornaday, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/chilling-zero-days-investigates-the-stuxnet-virus-and-finds-a-secret-cyberwar/2016/07/07/4aa06bda-3e03-11e6-80bc-d06711fd2125_story.html Chilling 'Zero Days' investigates the Stuxnet virus and finds a secret cyberwar], ''Washington Post'' (July 7, 2016).</ref> In October 2006, he was named Chief Washington Correspondent.{{cn|date=April 2024}} He was a member of a Pulitzer-winning team that wrote about the [[Clinton administration]]'s struggles to control exports to China.{{cn|date=April 2024}} In a March 2016 interview,<ref>{{Cite news |date=2016-03-26 |title=Transcript: Donald Trump Expounds on His Foreign Policy Views |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/us/politics/donald-trump-transcript.html |access-date=2024-05-15 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Sanger questioned [[Donald Trump|Donald J. Trump]], who was running for the Republican nomination for [[President of the United States]], about his views on foreign policy. Sanger pressed Trump on the idea that his worldview was one of 'America First', a term first used in association with Trump in a report by the former U.S. diplomat [[Armand Cucciniello|Armand V. Cucciniello III]] in [[USA Today]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cucciniello |first=Armand V. III |title=Don't dismiss Trump on foreign policy: Column |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/03/11/donald-trump-foreign-policy-national-security-elections-2016-column/81586552/ |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}</ref> Trump "agreed with a suggestion that his ideas might be summed up as 'America First'." His campaign quickly adopted the slogan as the cornerstone of Trump's foreign policy. The phrase was used throughout the Trump administration. == Other activities == Sanger is also an adjunct lecturer in public policy at [[Harvard Kennedy School]], where he is the first National Security and Press fellow at the school's [[Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs]].<ref>{{cite web|title=David E. Sanger|url=http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/experts/2206/david_e_sanger.html|publisher=Harvard|access-date=2012-05-01}}</ref> Sanger is a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] and the [[Aspen Strategy Group]].<ref>[https://www.wnyc.org/people/david-sanger/ Profile: David Sanger] ''WNYC''</ref> == Personal life == In April 1987, Sherill Ann Leonard, a third-year student at the Yale Law School, was engaged to Sanger.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1987-04-05 |title=Sherill A. Leonard, Yale Law Student, Engaged to David Sanger, a Reporter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/05/style/sherill-a-leonard-yale-law-student-engaged-to-david-sanger-a-reporter.html |access-date=2024-05-15 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In June 1987, both 1982 magna cum laude graduates of Harvard College, Sanger married Leonard, now a Yale Law School graduate, and a law clerk, for Judge [[Robert L. Carter]], in a non-denominational ceremony in the [[Memorial Church of Harvard University]].<ref name=NYTSherWedding /> ==Works== Sanger has written books on [[US foreign policy]]. In 2009, Sanger's first book is ''The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power'', based on his seven years as the ''Times'' [[White House]] correspondent, covering two wars, the confrontations with [[Iran]], [[North Korea]] and other states that are described in Western media as "rogue" states, and America's efforts to deal with the rise of China. In 2012, Sanger's second book ''[[Confront and Conceal]]: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power'' is an account of how Obama has dealt with those challenges, relying on innovative weapons (such as [[Unmanned aerial vehicle|UAV]]s and [[cyberwarfare]], such as [[Operation Olympic Games]]) and reconfigured tools of American power. In 2016, General [[James Cartwright]], then the retired Vice Chairman of the [[Joint Chiefs of Staff]], pleaded guilty to making false statements in connection with the unauthorized disclosure of classified information about the military use of the [[Stuxnet]] computer worm on the [[Natanz#Nuclear_facility|Natanz nuclear enrichment facility]],<ref name=nytimes_review>{{cite web |last = Ricks |first = Thomas |author-link= Thomas E. Ricks (journalist) |title =Covert Wars, Waged Virally |work = [[The New York Times Book Review|Book Review]] |date = June 5, 2012 |url = https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/books/confront-and-conceal-by-david-sanger.html |access-date = January 30, 2019 }}</ref><ref name=guilty_plea>{{cite web | title = Retired general pleads guilty to lying to federal investigators | publisher = [[CBS]] | date = October 17, 2016 | url = https://www.cbsnews.com/news/retired-marine-gen-james-cartwright-charged-with-false-statements-in-leak-probe/ | access-date = January 30, 2019 }}</ref> some of which appeared in Sanger's 2012 book ''Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power''.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Jarrett|first1=Laura|title=Retired four-star general admits leaking top-secret info to media|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/17/politics/general-cartwright-pleads-guilty-leaking-information/index.html|work=CNN News|date=October 17, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-vice-chairman-joint-chiefs-staff-pleads-guilty-federal-felony-leak-investigation |title=Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Pleads Guilty to Federal Felony in Leak Investigation |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= 17 October 2016|website=justice.gov |publisher=United States Government}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jarrett |first1=Laura |title=Retired four-star general admits leaking top-secret info to media {{!}} Politics |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/17/politics/general-cartwright-pleads-guilty-leaking-information/index.html |work=CNN |date=17 October 2016 |language=en}}</ref> In 2018, Sanger's book is ''[[The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age]]''. In 2024, Sanger's book is ''[[New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West]]''.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Vogt |first=Justin |date=2024-04-13 |title=How America Is Picking Up the Pieces of a Broken Global Order |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/books/review/new-cold-wars-david-e-sanger.html |access-date=2024-05-15 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *{{C-SPAN|14617}} *{{Charlie Rose view|20577}} *{{IMDb name|2172320}} *{{NYTtopic|people/s/david_e_sanger}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080509135939/http://kennedy.byu.edu/events/archive.php#765 Inside the White House: What Happened to the Bush Plan to Change the World?], October 25, 2007 * {{Muckrack}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanger, David E.}} [[Category:1960 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Harvard College alumni]] [[Category:The New York Times journalists]] [[Category:American male journalists]] [[Category:American male non-fiction writers]] [[Category:American newspaper reporters and correspondents]] [[Category:Jewish American journalists]] [[Category:Jewish American non-fiction writers]] [[Category:Naumburg family]] [[Category:21st-century American Jews]]'