Maggie Haberman | |
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| Born | Maggie Lindsy Haberman (1973-10-30)October 30, 1973 (age 52) New York City, U.S. |
| Education | Sarah Lawrence College (BA) |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Clyde Haberman (father) Vartan Gregorian (father-in-law) |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting Aldo Beckman Award for Journalistic Excellence Front Page Award |
Maggie Lindsy Haberman (born October 30, 1973) is an American journalist, aWhite House correspondent forThe New York Times, and a political analyst forCNN. She previously worked as a political reporter for theNew York Post, theNew York Daily News, andPolitico. She wrote aboutDonald Trump for those publications and rose to prominence covering his campaign, first presidency, and inter-presidency for theTimes.[1] In 2022, she published the best-selling bookConfidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.
Haberman was born on October 30, 1973, inNew York City, the daughter ofClyde Haberman, who became a longtime journalist forThe New York Times, and Nancy Haberman (née Spies), a media communications executive atRubenstein Associates.[2] At that firm, a "publicity powerhouse" whose eponymous founder has been called "the dean of damage control" byRudy Giuliani, Haberman's mother worked for a client list of influential New Yorkers includingDonald Trump.[3] Haberman is a 1991 graduate ofEthical Culture Fieldston School, followed bySarah Lawrence College where she earned abachelor's degree in 1995.[4] She is ofJewish descent.[5]
Haberman's career began in 1996 when she was hired by theNew York Post.[6] In 1999, thePost assigned her to cover City Hall, where she became "hooked" on political reporting.[7] Haberman worked for thePost's rival newspaper, theNew York Daily News, for three and a half years in the early 2000s,[7] where she continued to cover City Hall.[2] Haberman returned to thePost to cover the2008 U.S. presidential campaign and other political races.[8] In 2010, Haberman was hired byPolitico as a senior reporter.[9] She became a political analyst forCNN in 2014.[10]
Haberman was hired byThe New York Times in early 2015 as a political correspondent for the2016 U.S. presidential campaign.[8] According to one commentator, Haberman "formed a potent journalistic tag team withGlenn Thrush".[11]
Her reporting style as a member of the White House staff of theTimes features in theLiz Garbus documentary seriesThe Fourth Estate.[12]
According to an analysis by British digital strategistRob Blackie, Haberman was one of the most commonly followed political writers amongBiden administration staff onTwitter.[13]
Haberman frequently broke news about the Trump campaign and administration.[14] In March 2016 Haberman, along withNew York Times reporterDavid E. Sanger, questioned Trump in an interview, "Donald Trump Expounds on His Foreign Policy Views," during which he "agreed with a suggestion that his ideas might be summed up as 'America First,"[15] a term first used in association with Trump in an Op-Ed by the former U.S. diplomatArmand Cucciniello.[16]
In October 2016, one month before Donald Trump defeatedHillary Clinton in the US presidential election, a stolen document released byGuccifer 2.0 outlined how Clinton's campaign could induce Haberman to place sympathetic stories inPolitico. However, contrary to the hopes of her campaign, subsequent stories by Haberman about Clinton were much more critical of her than they had hoped for.[17] Haberman was criticized for applying a double standard in her reporting about the scandals involving the two presidential candidates of the 2016 election. Haberman andThe New York Times disproportionately coveredHillary Clinton's email controversy with many more articles critical of her than of the numerous scandals involving her competitor Donald Trump, including hissexual misconduct allegations,[18][19] with Taylor Link writing: "The NYT's White House reporter calls the Clinton campaign liars, but was hesitant to use that word with Trump."[20]
She has been credited with becoming "the highest-profile reporter" to cover Trump's campaign and presidency, as well as "the most-cited journalist in theMueller report".[21] She has also been accused "from certain corners of the left as a supposed water carrier for the 45th president".[21]
In 2022, Haberman published a book on the Trump presidency calledConfidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. In advance of its release, CNN published an excerpt revealing that Trump planned to remain in the White House after his November 2020 election loss.[22][23] AGuardian review of the book describes her as "theNew York Times' Trump whisperer", and describes the book as "much more than 600 pages of context, scoop and drama....it gives Trump and those close to him plenty of voice – and rope."[24] The book debuted at number one onThe New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending October 8, 2022.[25]
In 2018, Haberman's reporting on the Trump administration earned thePulitzer Prize for National Reporting (shared with colleagues at theTimes andThe Washington Post),[26] the individualAldo Beckman Award for Journalistic Excellence award from theWhite House Correspondents' Association,[27] and theFront Page Award for Journalist of the Year from theNewswomen's Club of New York.[28][29]
In January 2020, attorneys representingNick Sandmann announced that Haberman was one of many media personalities they were suing for defamation for her coverage of the 2019Lincoln Memorial confrontation.[30]
Journalists and authors criticized Haberman for allegedly choosing to withhold information about Donald Trump for the sake of her book, despite being aware of it ahead of theJanuary 6 United States Capitol attack, although they presented no evidence of when she had learned of Trump's statements.[31][23] Her reporting has also been criticized for a passive slant favorable to the Trump White House.[32]
Haberman married Dareh Ardashes Gregorian in 2003. Gregorian is a reporter for theNew York Daily News, formerly of theNew York Post, and the son of academic and historianVartan Gregorian.[2] They have three children and live inBrooklyn.[3]
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Hannity accused Haberman, who is Jewish, with relying on blind quotes to smear him
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)The NYT's White House reporter calls the Clinton campaign liars, but was hesitant to use that word with Trump.
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