Maggie Haberman

Maggie Haberman
Haberman in 2018
Born
Maggie Lindsy Haberman

(1973-10-30) October 30, 1973 (age 51)[1][2][3]
New York City, U.S.
EducationSarah Lawrence College (BA)
Years active1995–present
Spouse
Dareh Ardashes Gregorian
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(m. 2003)​
Children3
RelativesClyde Haberman (father)
AwardsPulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Aldo Beckman Award for Journalistic Excellence
Front Page Award

Maggie Lindsy Haberman (born October 30, 1973) is an American journalist, 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. She wrote about Donald Trump for those publications and rose to prominence covering his campaign, first presidency, and inter-presidency for the Times.[4] In 2022, she published the best-selling book Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.

Early life and education

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Haberman was born on October 30, 1973, in New York City, the daughter of Clyde Haberman, who became a longtime journalist for The New York Times, and Nancy Haberman (née Spies), a media communications executive at Rubenstein Associates.[5] At that firm, a "publicity powerhouse" whose eponymous founder has been called "the dean of damage control" by Rudy Giuliani, Haberman's mother worked for a client list of influential New Yorkers including Donald Trump.[6] Haberman is a 1991 graduate of Ethical Culture Fieldston School, followed by Sarah Lawrence College where she earned a bachelor's degree in 1995.[7]

Career

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Haberman's career began in 1996 when she was hired by the New York Post.[8] In 1999, the Post assigned her to cover City Hall, where she became "hooked" on political reporting.[9] Haberman worked for the Post's rival newspaper, the New York Daily News, for three and a half years in the early 2000s,[9] where she continued to cover City Hall.[5] Haberman returned to the Post to cover the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign and other political races.[10] In 2010, Haberman was hired by Politico as a senior reporter.[11] She became a political analyst for CNN in 2014.[12]

Haberman was hired by The New York Times in early 2015 as a political correspondent for the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.[10] According to one commentator, Haberman "formed a potent journalistic tag team with Glenn Thrush".[13]

Her reporting style as a member of the White House staff of the Times features in the Liz Garbus documentary series The Fourth Estate.[14]

According to an analysis by British digital strategist Rob Blackie, Haberman was one of the most commonly followed political writers among Biden administration staff on Twitter.[15]

Reporting on Trump

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Haberman frequently broke news about the Trump campaign and administration.[16] In March 2016 Haberman, along with New York Times reporter David 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,"[17] a term first used in association with Trump in an Op-Ed by the former U.S. diplomat Armand Cucciniello.[18]

In October 2016, one month before Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election, a stolen document released by Guccifer 2.0 outlined how Clinton's campaign could induce Haberman to place sympathetic stories in Politico. 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.[19] Haberman was criticized for applying a double standard in her reporting about the scandals involving the two presidential candidates of the 2016 election. Haberman and The New York Times disproportionately covered Hillary Clinton's email controversy with many more articles critical of her than of the numerous scandals involving her competitor Donald Trump, including his sexual misconduct allegations,[20][21] with Taylor Link writing: "The NYT's White House reporter calls the Clinton campaign liars, but was hesitant to use that word with Trump."[22]

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 the Mueller report".[23] She has also been accused "from certain corners of the left as a supposed water carrier for the 45th president".[23]

In 2022, Haberman published a book on the Trump presidency called Confidence 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.[24][25] A Guardian review of the book describes her as "the New 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."[26] The book debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending October 8, 2022.[27]

Awards and honors

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In 2018, Haberman's reporting on the Trump administration earned the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (shared with colleagues at the Times and The Washington Post),[28] the individual Aldo Beckman Award for Journalistic Excellence award from the White House Correspondents' Association,[29] and the Front Page Award for Journalist of the Year from the Newswomen's Club of New York.[30][31]

Criticism

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In January 2020, attorneys representing Nick Sandmann announced that Haberman was one of many media personalities they were suing for defamation for her coverage of the 2019 Lincoln Memorial confrontation.[32]

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 the January 6 United States Capitol attack, although they presented no evidence of when she had learned of Trump's statements.[33][25] Haberman was also criticized for withholding her knowledge of Trump's unlawful possession of classified documents for over a year.[34] Her reporting has also been criticized for a passive slant favorable to the Trump White House.[35]

Personal life

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Haberman married Dareh Ardashes Gregorian, a reporter for the New York Daily News, formerly of the New York Post, and son of Vartan Gregorian, in 2003.[5] They have three children and live in Brooklyn.[6]

Bibliography

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  • — (October 4, 2022). Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. Penguin Press. ISBN 978-0593297346. OCLC 1296405532.
  • Flegenheimer, Matt; — (2016). "Foul-mouthed and proud of it on the '16 campaign trail". Campaign trends and election law. H.W. Wilson. ISBN 9781682170670. OCLC 960643787.
  • —; MacIntosh, Jeane (2003). Held Captive: The Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth Smart. New York, N.Y.: Avon Books. ISBN 9780060580209. OCLC 52599890.

References

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  1. ^ "Weddings/Celebrations; Maggie Haberman, Dareh Gregorian". The New York Times. November 9, 2003. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  2. ^ Haberman, Maggie (October 30, 2013). "Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone!". Twitter. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  3. ^ Ross, Garrett (October 30, 2022). "POLITICO Playbook: Can Obama spark a surge for Dems?". Politico. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  4. ^ Gross, Terry (December 10, 2020). "'It Is Roiling Him': Reporter Maggie Haberman Unpacks Trump's Refusal to Admit He Lost". Fresh Air. NPR. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
  5. ^ a b c "Weddings/Celebrations: Maggie Haberman, Dareh Gregorian". The New York Times. November 9, 2003. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  6. ^ a b Combe, Rachael (May 24, 2017). "Wanna Know What Donald Trump Is Really Thinking? Read Maggie Haberman". Elle. Archived from the original on July 24, 2018. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
  7. ^ Calderone, Michael (January 9, 2015). "New York Times Staffing Up For 2016 Election With Maggie Haberman Hire". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on April 24, 2016. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  8. ^ Flood, Brian (March 21, 2017). "How Tabloids Helped NY Times' Maggie Haberman Ace Trump White House". TheWrap. Archived from the original on March 25, 2017. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  9. ^ a b Meares, Joel (September 2, 2010). "Q & A: Politico's Maggie Haberman". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on March 26, 2017. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  10. ^ a b Wemple, Erik (January 9, 2015). "Maggie Haberman leaves huge hole at Politico, moves to New York Times". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  11. ^ Gilman, Greg (January 9, 2015). "Politico's Senior Political Reporter Maggie Haberman Joins New York Times". TheWrap. Archived from the original on May 11, 2017. Retrieved March 26, 2017.
  12. ^ Chotiner, Isaac (June 29, 2017). "The leakiest White House I've ever covered". Slate. Archived from the original on August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  13. ^ Goldiner, Dave (April 23, 2017). "Maggie Haberman Hits Back In Twitter Spat With 'Trump Adviser' Sean Hannity". The Forward. Archived from the original on June 20, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
  14. ^ Garber, Megan (June 15, 2018). "The Humans of The New York Times". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on September 11, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
  15. ^ Thompson, Alex; Meyer, Theodoric (January 20, 2021). "Biden 'is planning to run again' in 2024". Politico. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
  16. ^ Smith, Ben (November 8, 2020). "The Trump Presidency Is Ending. So Is Maggie Haberman's Wild Ride". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
  17. ^ "Transcript: Donald Trump Expounds on His Foreign Policy Views". The New York Times. March 26, 2016.
  18. ^ III, Armand V. Cucciniello. "Don't dismiss Trump on foreign policy: Column". USA TODAY. Retrieved September 22, 2023.
  19. ^ Greenwald, Glenn; Fang, Lee (October 9, 2016). "EXCLUSIVE: New Email Leak Reveals Clinton Campaign's Cozy Press Relationship". The Intercept. Archived from the original on August 22, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
  20. ^ Boucher, Ashley (September 27, 2017). "Nate Silver and Maggie Haberman Duke it Out on Twitter Over Clinton Email Coverage". yahoo.com. Archived from the original on October 18, 2020. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  21. ^ Garofalo, Pat (September 11, 2017). "Why the medias coverage of Hillary Clinton's emails still matters". usnews.com. Archived from the original on October 17, 2020. Retrieved October 15, 2020.
  22. ^ Link, Taylor (October 25, 2017). "New York Times reporter just demonstrated some astonishing false equivalency". Salon.com. Archived from the original on October 12, 2020. Retrieved October 15, 2020. The NYT's White House reporter calls the Clinton campaign liars, but was hesitant to use that word with Trump.
  23. ^ a b Ellison, Sarah (August 26, 2021). "Maggie Haberman and the never-ending Trump story". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
  24. ^ Herb, Jeremy (September 12, 2022). "Exclusive: 'I'm just not going to leave': New book reveals Trump vowed to stay in White House". CNN. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  25. ^ a b Klein, Joe (September 28, 2022). "'Confidence Man,' Maggie Haberman's Book on Trump: Review". The New York Times.
  26. ^ Green, Lloyd (October 2, 2022). "Confidence Man review: Maggie Haberman takes down Trump". The Guardian. Retrieved October 2, 2022.
  27. ^ "Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction - Best Sellers". The New York Times. Retrieved October 13, 2022.
  28. ^ "National Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Archived from the original on May 8, 2019. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
  29. ^ "2018 Winners". White House Correspondents' Association. Archived from the original on September 27, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
  30. ^ "Times Wins Seven Front Page Awards". The New York Times Company. October 8, 2018. Archived from the original on October 9, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  31. ^ "The 2018 Front Page Awards". Newswomen's Club of New York. November 8, 2018. Archived from the original on November 9, 2018. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  32. ^ Knight, Cameron. "CovCath students file 5 lawsuits over Lincoln Memorial incident". Cincinnati.com. Archived from the original on February 20, 2020. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  33. ^ Ortiz, Andi (September 12, 2022). "NY Times' Maggie Haberman Criticized for Saving Trump Quote About Not Leaving White House for Her Book". TheWrap. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  34. ^ https://twitter.com/soledadobrien/status/1494868397921820678 [bare URL]
  35. ^ Waldman, Katy (January 7, 2023). "Maggie Haberman, the Confidence Man's Chronicler". The New Yorker.
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