David Sanger covers the White House for The New York Times and is one of the newspaper’s senior writers. In a 24-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 Bush presidency.
As a correspondent and then bureau chief in Tokyo, he filed on North Korea’s secret nuclear weapons program throughout the 1990’s. During his time in Tokyo, Sanger covered Japan's rise as the world's second largest economic power, and then its humbling recession. 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. In Washington, Sanger began to focus on domestic issues and,with the end of the Clinton Administration in 1999, he became the White House Correspondent .
Mr. Sanger is the co-recipient of the Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting for his coverage of the Iraq and Korea crises. He has received the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for his coverage of the presidency, the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for his coverage of the emergence of a new United States national security strategy, and the American Society of Newspaper Editor’s top award for deadline writing for his role in the team coverage of the Columbia disaster. He has twice been a member of Times reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize. In addition to his work with The New York Times, Sanger appears regularly on public affairs and news shows. He delivers the Washington Report on WQXR, the radio station of The Times, twice a week. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.
Sanger graduated magna cum laude in government from Harvard College in 1982.
