Mr. Sanger Verified

Mr. David Sanger covers the White House for the New York Times. In a 22-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 the arc of the Bush presidency. As a correspondent and 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 1990s. 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 White House correspondent later. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Sanger joined the Times in the business day section, specializing in the computer industry and high-technology trade. Twice a week he delivers the Washington Report, on WQXR, the radio station of the Times. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group and has been the member of the Times reporting team, which won the Pulitzer Award. In 2004 he was the co-recipient of the Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting for his coverage of the Iraq and Korea crises. He has also won the Aldo Beckman prize for coverage of the presidency, awarded by the White House Correspondents Association. He won 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 shared the American Society of Newspaper Editors top award for headline writing, for team coverage of the Columbia disaster. [CR-LF][CR-LF]In 1986 he played a major role in the team that investigated the causes of the space shuttle Challenger disaster and won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He was a member of another Pulitzer-winning team that wrote about the struggles within the Clinton Administration over controlling exports to China. Sanger was born on July 5, 1960 in White Plains, N.Y. He was educated in the public school system at White Plains and graduated magna cum laude in government from Harvard College in 1982.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr.Sanger is on a "book leave" from the Times. Return unknown, but he is still a long-time contributor.

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