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David E. Sanger (born July 5, 1960 in White Plains, New York) is the Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times. A 1982 graduate of Harvard College, Sanger has been writing for the Times for over 26 years covering foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation, and the presidency. He has been a member of two teams that won the Pulitzer prize, and has been awarded numerous honors for national security and foreign policy coverage. His first book, The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power (Harmony, 2009), was a best-seller.

Contents 1 Career 2 Memberships 3 Personal life 4 Television appearances 5 External links

[edit] Career

Before coming to Washington in 1994, Sanger was a correspondent and then chief of The Times's Tokyo bureau. There, he developed a specialization in writing on the influence of economics and foreign policy, and the relationships between the United States and its major allies, a subject he continues to pursue in Washington. He also wrote many of the first articles about North Korea's nuclear weapons program. He left Asia in 1994 to become the chief Washington economic correspondent. Later, he was named a senior writer and White House correspondent. He was with President Bush on 9/11 and covered two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan. He also played a central role in the first stories that uncovered the nuclear proliferation ring run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani metallurgist who helped sell technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya. That investigation became the core of "Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb? which won the Columbia/DuPont Award in 2007.

As a newcomer to the Times, Sanger was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer for national reporting on its investigation of the space agency following the Challenger disaster. Later, he was among another Pulitzer-winning team to write about the Clinton Administration’s struggle to control exports to China. In 2004, he and four other colleagues also shared the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ top award for deadline writing for their team coverage of the Columbia disaster. He has also won the Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting, for coverage of the Korean and Iraq crises in 2003, and several awards from the White House Correspondent's Association.

[edit] Memberships

Sanger is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.

[edit] Personal life

David Sanger currently lives in Washington D.C. with his wife Sherill, two sons Andrew and Ned and dog Chloe.

[edit] Television appearances

Sanger has frequently been a guest on public television shows such as Washington Week and the Charlie Rose Show. He has appeared on all of the main Sunday morning public affairs shows.

[edit] External links

• Index of New York Times stories
• Inside the White House: What Happened to the Bush Plan to Change the World?