David E. Sanger
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David E. ("Ethelbert") Sanger — born on July 5, 1960 in White Plains, New York — is White House correspondent for The New York Times. A 1982 graduate of Harvard College, Sanger has been writing for The New York Times for over 24 years covering New York, Tokyo and, most recently, Washington, D.C.. He has reported on such issues as foreign policy, globalisation, nuclear proliferation, Asian affairs, and the revitalisation of Boston's Parker House Hotel. He currently covers the George W. Bush administration.
Before coming to the White House, Sanger was a correspondent and then bureau chief of The New York Times bureau in Tokyo. There, he developed a specialisation 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. Although he was never able to actually learn the Japanese language, Sanger immersed himself in the culture, history and politics of Japan. Sanger embraced the Japanese economic model while it continued to fail in many Southeast Asian countries.
He left Asia in 1994 to become the chief Washington economic correspondent, later being named senior writer and, in 1999, joined the ranks of Elisabeth Bumiller as White House correspondent. President Bush, who commonly nicknames those with whom he has close contact, has nicknamed Sanger "that guy from Gerald M. Boyd's (managing editor of The Times) paper."
Sanger has received numerous journalistic awards, including being named twice among The New York Times reporting teams honored with the Pulitzer Prize. First, in 1987, his reporting team 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.
Sanger is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.
Sanger has frequently been a guest on public television shows such as Washington Week and the Charlie Rose Show. Mr. Rose has complimented Sanger on his insightful analysis and his personal style, noting that Sanger's new tailor was a marked improvement.
