David Segal is anewspaper columnist andreporter.^[1] He was the author of "The Haggler", a bi-weekly column in the Sunday edition ofThe New York Times. Segal has received praise for his writing and reporting skills.^[2][3]

Until June 11, 2017 Segal authored the bi-weekly "The Haggler" column in the Sunday edition ofThe New York Times, in which he printed and attempted to resolve reader-submitted letters about plights in customer service. His column covered companies such asSears,^[4]Apple,^[5]Samsung,^[6] and many others.^[7] It was generally written in a semi-third person style, in which he referred to himself as "The Haggler" rather than "I".^[7] His interventions were generally successful.^[8][9]

David Segal has written pieces forThe New York Times about technology and business topics includingsearch-engine optimization^[10] andSEC-related fraud.^[11] He was one of a team ofNew York Times reporters who won the 2013Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series of 10 articles about the business practices ofApple and other technology companies.^[12][13]

Segal's December 2010 story about a Brooklyn-based online eyeglass seller,Vitaly Borker, who manipulated his site's Google search ranking through negative publicity^[14] received attention from the media and prompted Google to alter its algorithms.^[15]

Before joining theNew York Times in 2008, Segal worked for 14 years atThe Washington Post, four of them spent as the paper's pop music critic and four others as the paper's Style section correspondent in New York City.^[16] AtThe Post, Segal wrote a profile about a British man who suedWilco for using sounds he'd recorded in the band's albumYankee Hotel Foxtrot.^[17] This profile was later published inDa Capo Best Music Writing 2005.^[18]

Segal was an editor atThe Washington Monthly in 1993 and 1994 and as of 2024^[update] remains a contributing editor for the magazine.^[19] Since 2004, he has also contributed stories to the radio showThis American Life.^[20]

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