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Maggie Haberman
Haberman at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
Born
Maggie Lindsy Haberman

(1973-10-30) October 30, 1973 (age 51)
New York City, U.S.
Alma materSarah Lawrence College
OccupationJournalist
Years active1995–present
Spouse
Dareh Ardashes Gregorian
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(m. 2003)​
Children3
Parent(s)Clyde Haberman (father)
Nancy Haberman (mother)

Maggie Lindsy Haberman (born October 30, 1973) is an American journalist, who is a White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for CNN. She previously worked as a political reporter for the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Politico.

Early life

Haberman was born to a Jewish family[1] on October 30, 1973, in New York City, the daughter of Clyde Haberman, a journalist for The New York Times, and Nancy Haberman (née Spies), a media communications executive at Rubenstein Associates.[2] At the firm, a "publicity powerhouse" whose eponymous founder has been called "the dean of damage control" by Rudy Giuliani, Haberman's mother has done work for a client list of influential New Yorkers including Donald Trump.[3] A singer, in 3rd grade Haberman played the title role in a performance of the musical Annie at the P.S 75 Emily Dickinson School. She is a 1991 graduate of Ethical Culture Fieldston School, an independent preparatory school in New York City, followed by Sarah Lawrence College, a private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in 1995.[4]

Career

Haberman's professional career began in 1996 when she was hired by the New York Post.[5] In 1999, the Post assigned her to cover City Hall, where she became "hooked" on political reporting.[6] Haberman worked for the Post's rival newspaper, the New York Daily News, for three and a half years in the early 2000s,[6] where she continued to cover City Hall.[2] Haberman returned to the Post to cover the 2008 U.S. Presidential campaign and other political races.[7] In 2010, Haberman was hired by Politico as a senior reporter.[8] She became a political analyst for CNN in 2014.[9]

Haberman was hired by The New York Times in early 2015 to be a political correspondent for the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign.[7] According to one commentator, Haberman "formed a potent journalistic tag team with Glenn Thrush".[1]

Her reporting style as a member of the White House staff of the New York Times features in the Liz Garbus documentary series The Fourth Estate. Among the daily frustrations of her work covering the Trump administration, she is also shown on camera in her role as a mother being interrupted during tense moments to take phone calls from her children, at one point declaring to her phone, "You can't die in your nightmares."[10]

In October 2016, one month before Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Presidential election, a document was released by WikiLeaks that showed the Clinton campaign's use of Haberman to place sympathetic stories in Politico. "[The Clinton campaign] has a very good relationship with Maggie Haberman of Politico over the last year. We have had her tee up stories for us before and have never been disappointed. While we should have a larger conversation in the near future about a broader strategy for reengaging the beat press that covers HRC, for this we think we can achieve our objective and do the most shaping by going to Maggie."[11]

In 2018, Haberman's reporting on the Trump administration earned the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (shared with colleagues at the New York Times and Washington Post)[12] and the individual Aldo Beckman Memorial Award from the White House Correspondents' Association.[13] Trump himself has repeatedly responded to her Times articles by calling her a "Hillary flunky" and a "third rate reporter".[14]

Personal life

Haberman married Dareh Ardashes Gregorian, a reporter for New York Daily News, formerly of the New York Post, and son of Vartan Gregorian, in a November 2003 ceremony on the Tribeca Rooftop in Manhattan.[2] They have three children, and live in Brooklyn.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Goldiner, Dave (April 23, 2017). "Maggie Haberman Hits Back In Twitter Spat With 'Trump Adviser' Sean Hannity". The Forward. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Weddings/Celebrations: Maggie Haberman, Dareh Gregorian". The New York Times. November 9, 2003. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  3. ^ a b Combe, Rachael (May 24, 2017). "Wanna Know What Donald Trump Is Really Thinking? Read Maggie Haberman". Elle. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
  4. ^ Calderone, Michael (January 9, 2015). "New York Times Staffing Up For 2016 Election With Maggie Haberman Hire". The Huffington Post. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  5. ^ Flood, Brian (March 21, 2017). "How Tabloids Helped NY Times' Maggie Haberman Ace Trump White House". TheWrap. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  6. ^ a b Meares, Joel (September 2, 2010). "Q & A: Politico's Maggie Haberman". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  7. ^ a b Wemple, Erik (January 9, 2015). "Maggie Haberman leaves huge hole at Politico, moves to New York Times". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  8. ^ Gilman, Greg (January 9, 2015). "Politico's Senior Political Reporter Maggie Haberman Joins New York Times". TheWrap. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  9. ^ Chotiner, Isaac (June 29, 2017). ""The leakiest White House I've ever covered". Slate. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  10. ^ Garber, Megan (June 15, 2018). "The Humans of The New York Times". The Atlantic. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
  11. ^ Greenwald, Glenn; Fang, Lee (October 9, 2016). "EXCLUSIVE: New Email Leak Reveals Clinton Campaign's Cozy Press Relationship". The Intercept. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
  12. ^ "National Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
  13. ^ "2018 Winners". White House Correspondents' Association. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
  14. ^ Britzky, Haley (April 21, 2018). "Trump attacks NYT reporter Maggie Haberman". Axios. Retrieved September 1, 2018.


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