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Revision as of 17:45, 10 January 2017

Serge F. Kovaleski
BornCape Town, South Africa
OccupationInvestigative journalist
NationalityAmerican
EducationCollege of William & Mary, B.A., 1984
Years active1980s–present
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize, 2009; Military Reporting Polk Award, 2016

Serge F. Kovaleski is an investigative reporter at The New York Times.[1] He contributed to reporting that won The New York Times a Pulitzer Prize for its investigation of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.[2][3][4]

Early life

Born in Cape Town, South Africa,[1] Kovaleski spent his early childhood in Sydney, Australia, until his family moved to New York City in the 1970s.[5]

He graduated in 1984 from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia with a degree in philosophy.[2] After receiving his bachelor's degree, Kovaleski studied French philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris. His travels through Europe before the fall of the Berlin Wall inspired him to become a journalist.[5]

Career

Kovaleski began his journalism career in the mid-1980s at the Miami News.[2] He then worked for the New York Daily News, The Washington Post,[2] and Money magazine.[1] He joined the New York Times in July 2006 as an investigative and general assignment reporter on the Metro desk.[1][2] He joined the Culture desk as an investigative journalist in 2014,[6] [1] and moved to the National desk in 2016.[1]

Awards

In 2009, Kovaleski received a Pulitzer Prize for "Breaking News Reporting."[2]

In 2016, he and Nicholas Kulish, Christopher Drew, Mark Mazzetti, Matthew Rosenberg, Sean D. Naylor and John Ismay received a Military Reporting Polk Award for their investigation into allegations that members of the U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 abused Afghan detainees.[7]

Ridicule by Donald Trump

After candidate Donald J. Trump's assertion (made in a speech delivered on November 21, 2015) that

"I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down, thousands of people were cheering, so something is going on. We got to find out what it is. I do want surveillance"[8]

was met with widespread disbelief,[9] the Trump campaign pointed to Kovaleski's September 18, 2001 report for the Washington Post (co-authored with Fredrick Kunkle) that "law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation"[10] as substantiation of the claim.

Kovaleski issued the following written statement in response to the Trump campaign's adoption of his report as factual basis for their candidate's assertion that thousands of Muslims in the U.S. publicly celebrated the destruction of the World Trade Center, a claim Trump has used to support his call for the surveillance of mosques and the establishment of a registry for U.S. Muslims:[11] “I certainly do not remember anyone saying that thousands or even hundreds of people were celebrating. That was not the case, as best as I can remember.”[12]

This statement by Kovaleski prompted Trump to remark in a November 25, 2015 speech given in South Carolina, "You’ve got to see this guy: 'Uhh, I don't know what I said. Uhh, I don't remember,' he's going like 'I don't remember. Maybe that's what I said.'"[13] Trump bent his wrist severely and flailed his arms repeatedly as he spoke giving many viewers the impression that his intent was not only to ridicule the reporter's words but also to mock the physical appearance of Kovaleski, who has arthrogryposis.

Trump later claimed that he could not have been mocking Kovaleski's disability[14] because he did not know what Kovaleski looked like. Catholics4Trump.com published a story detailing reasons to disbelieve the claim that Trump mocked the reporter for being disabled [15] [16]

Kovaleski responded by claiming that he had been on a first-name basis with Trump and had had perhaps a dozen face-to-face encounters with him, including interviews and press conferences, while reporting on Trump for the New York Daily News.[14] But those meetings took place more than 20 years prior. Kovaleski is not spastic and so if Trump remembered those meetings, then Trump would know Kovaleski is not spastic. [17]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Serge F. Kovaleski". The New York Times. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Zagursky, Erin (May 28, 2009). "Serge Kovaleski ('84) earns Pulitzer Prize". William & Mary News. Williamsburg, Virginia: College of William & Mary. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  3. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes: Spitzer Wrestles Over Response, Paralyzing Albany: Wife Said to Urge Fighting On". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2009. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved November 27, 2015. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  4. ^ Kovaleski, Serge F.; Urbina, Ian (March 13, 2008). "The Pulitzer Prizes: The Young Woman in Question, 22 and Worried About the Rent". The New York Times (republished by The Pulitzer Prizes for 2009 award recognition). Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved November 27, 2015. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  5. ^ a b Staff (March 18, 2016). "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Serge Kovaleski '79 Asks the Tough Questions". Dwight School. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  6. ^ Romensko, Jim (November 7, 2014). "Serge Kovaleski is named New York Times Culture department investigative reporter". JimRomenesko.com. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  7. ^ Staff (February 16, 2016). "The New York Times Wins Three Polk Awards". Press Run. The New York Times. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  8. ^ "Full Speech: Donald Trump Rally in Birmingham, AL- November 21, 2015 – Right Side Broadcasting". Right Side Broadcasting. November 21, 2015. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  9. ^ "Trump's outrageous claim that 'thousands' of New Jersey Muslims celebrated the 9/11 attacks". Washington Post. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  10. ^ Kovaleski, Serge F. and Fredrick Kunkle (18 September 2001). "Northern New Jersey Draws Probers' Eyes". Washington Post. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
  11. ^ Right Side Broadcasting (November 21, 2015), FULL Speech HD: Donald Trump MASSIVE Rally in Birmingham, AL (11-21-15), retrieved 2016-12-28
  12. ^ "Donald Trump's revisionist history of mocking a disabled reporter". Washington Post. Retrieved 2016-12-28.
  13. ^ Trump mocks reporter with disability - CNN Video, retrieved 2016-12-28
  14. ^ a b "Donald Trump Says His Mocking of New York Times Reporter Was Misread". The New York Times. Retrieved November 27, 2015.
  15. ^ [https://www.catholics4trump.com/the-true-story-donald-trump-did-not-mock-a-reporters-disability/ / "The True Story: Donald Trump Did Not Mock A Reporter's Disability"]. Catholics4Trump.com. Retrieved 2017-01-10. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); line feed character in |url= at position 97 (help)
  16. ^ [https://www.catholics4trump.com/even-more-video-evidence-trump-did-not-mock-reporters-disability/ / "Even MORE Video Evidence Trump Did Not Mock Reporter's Disability"]. Catholics4Trump.com. Retrieved 2017-01-10. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); line feed character in |url= at position 98 (help)
  17. ^ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baUuXQ443fA / "Media Hoax: Reporter NOT Spastic"]. YouTube. Retrieved 2017-01-10. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help); line feed character in |url= at position 44 (help)
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