A Conversation with David Sanger

A Conversation with David Sanger about Today’s Global Realities and America’s Next President

 

This article originally appeared in the Stockton Press Release on November 4, 2015.

David E. Sanger, chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times and professor at Harvard University, gave the keynote address for Stockton University’s annual New York Times Journalist Lecture. Stockton hosted “A Conversation with David Sanger about Today’s Global Realities and America’s Next President” on Tuesday, November 17.

Sanger has reported from New York, Tokyo and Washington, covering a wide variety of issues surrounding foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation and Asian affairs. In 2011, Sanger was part of a team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for International Reporting for their coverage of the tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan.

Before covering the White House, Sanger specialized in the confluence of economic and foreign policy, and wrote extensively on how issues of national wealth and competitiveness have come to define the relationships between the United States and its major allies.

As a correspondent and then 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 continues to cover proliferation issues from Washington.

Leaving Asia in 1994, Sanger 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 senior writer in March 1999, and the White House correspondent later that year. Sanger joined The New York Times in the Business Day section, specializing in the computer industry and high-technology trade.

In 1986, Sanger played a major role in the team that investigated the causes of the space shuttle Challenger disaster, writing the first stories about what the space agency knew about the potential flaws in the shuttle’s design and revealing that engineers had raised objections to launching the shuttle. The team won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Sanger was a member of another Pulitzer-winner team that wrote about the struggles within the Clinton administration over controlling exports to China.

The event was sponsored by William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy, Stockton University’s American Democracy/Political Engagement Project, Office of Service-Learning, and The New York Times inEducation.