Condé Nast Lectures on Media, Ethics and Values
David Sanger
Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York
Times
Covering War and its Aftermath: is the media confrontational enough?
Monday, October 1, 2007, 7:30 PM
Rehm Library
David E. Sanger is Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York
Times and is one of the newspaper's senior writers. In a 25-year
career at the paper, he has reported from New York , Tokyo and
Washington , covering a wide variety of issues surrounding foreign
policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation, Asian affairs and,
for the past five years, the arc of the Bush presidency. Twice he
has been a member of Times reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize.
Before covering the White House, Mr. Sanger specialized in the
confluence of economic and foreign policy, and wrote extensively on
how issues of national wealth and competitiveness have come to
redefine the relationships between the United States and its major
allies. As a correspondent and then bureau chief in Tokyo for six
years, he covered Japan's rise as the world's second largest
economic power, and then its humbling recession. He also filed
frequently from Southeast Asia , and wrote many of the first stories
about North Korea 's secret nuclear weapons program in the 1990's.
He continues to cover proliferation issues from Washington .
Leaving Asia in 1994, he took up the position of chief Washington
economic correspondent, and covered a series of global economic
upheavals, from Mexico to the Asian economic crisis. He was named a
senior writer in March, 1999, and White House correspondent later
that year. He was named Chief Washington Correspondent in October, 2006.
Mr. Sanger joined the Times in the Business Day section,
specializing in the computer industry and high-technology trade. In
1986 he played a major role in the team that investigated the
causes of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, writing the first
stories about what the space agency knew about the potential flaws
in the shuttle's design and revealing that engineers had raised
objections to launching the shuttle. The team won the 1987 Pulitzer
Prize for national reporting. He was a member of another
Pulitzer-winner team that wrote about the struggles within the
Clinton Administration over controlling exports to China .
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 Mr. Sanger and his colleague
William J. Broad, and based on their reporting uncovering the
nuclear proliferation network created by Abdul Khadeer Khan, the
Pakistani nuclear engineer who helped arm Iran, Libya and North
Korea. In 2004, Mr. Sanger was the co-recipient of the Weintal
Prize for diplomatic reporting for his coverage of the Iraq and
Korea crises. He also won the Aldo Beckman prize for coverage of
the presidency, awarded by the White House Correspondent's
Association. The previous year he won another of the association's
major prizes, the Merriman Smith Memorial Award, for coverage of
the emergence of a new national security strategy for the United
States . In 2004 he and four other colleagues also shared the
American Society of Newspaper Editor's top award for deadline
writing, for team coverage of the Columbia disaster.
Mr. Sanger appears regularly on public affairs and news shows.
Twice a week he delivers the Washington Report on WQXR, the radio
station of the Times.
Sanger's most recent articles can be accessed by clicking here.
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