Susanne Craig

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Susanne Craig
investigative journalist
  • political commentator
    • Years active1991-present
    EmployerThe New York Times
    AwardsPulitzer Prize, Order of Canada
    WebsiteWork Profile

    Susanne Craig

    tax returns were anonymously mailed during the 2016 presidential election. In 2018, Craig was an author of The New York Times investigation into Donald Trump's wealth that found the president inherited hundreds of millions of dollars from his father, some through fraudulent tax schemes.[1] She won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2019 for this coverage.[2]

    In 2020, Craig further reported on Donald Trump's tax record, which disclosed that he paid $750 in federal income tax during 2016 and nothing at all in 10 of the previous 15 years.

    New York City government
    and politics.

    Early life and education

    Craig was born in Calgary, Alberta, and attended the University of Calgary, graduating in 1991 with a B.A. in Political Science and Government.[4][5]

    While at the University of Calgary, she reported for the campus paper The Gauntlet where she got her start in reporting.[6]

    Career

    Craig began her career as a summer intern for the

    intern for the Windsor Star 1991; her first full-time job was as a reporter for the Windsor Star in Windsor, Ontario.[4]

    Craig originally wrote for

    bureau chief for coverage of the New York State government.[7][8][9] In 2015, Craig left Albany to become the Times' New York City Hall
    bureau chief.

    Craig is the recipient of the

    National Newspaper Award in Canada (Business - 1999)[10] and several Gerald Loeb Awards.[11][12] Additionally, she was the lead journalist on a team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for National Affairs Reporting in relation to coverage of the Lehman Brothers and their role in the financial crisis of 2008.[13]

    On October 1, 2016, the New York Times published an article co-authored by Craig, which stated that Donald Trump had reported a loss of $916 million in 1995, which could have allowed him to avoid paying income taxes for up to eighteen years.[14] In subsequent television interviews, Craig identified herself as the reporter who had received a portion of Trump's 1995 tax records in her mailbox from an anonymous sender.[15]

    In 2019, Craig and two other reporters shared the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for "an exhaustive 18-month investigation of President Donald Trump’s finances that debunked his claims of self-made wealth and revealed a business empire riddled with tax dodges".[2] On September 27, 2020, she and others further reported on Trump's tax record, exposing that Trump paid $750 in federal income tax during 2016 and no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years.

    In 2022, Craig started serving as an on-air analyst for MSNBC, where she speaks about her research into Trump’s finances, tax returns, and his indictment and criminal trial. [16]

    On February 22, 2024, Craig announced that she would be publishing a book titled Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created The Illusion of Success with

    Penguin Random House LLC in collaboration with her colleague Russ Buettner on September 10, 2024. The book draws on over twenty years’ worth of Trump’s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders. [17]

    Awards

    References

    1. ^ Barstow, David; Craig, Susanne; Buettner, Russ (October 2, 2018). "Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father". The New York Times. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
    2. ^ a b c "David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times". Pulitzer.org. 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
    3. ISSN 0362-4331
      . Retrieved September 28, 2020.
    4. ^ a b "Top 40 Alumni - Alumni - University of Calgary". Archived from the original on September 17, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
    5. ^ Rookie reporter wins award, Windsor Star, Windsor, Ontario, 04 Mar 1992.
    6. ^ "From the Gauntlet to a Pulitzer, Discover Susanne Craig's journey". Retrieved August 13, 2016.
    7. ^ a b "Times names Susanne Craig as Albany, New York bureau chief". blog.timesunion.com. Times Union (Albany). October 29, 2013. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
    8. ^ "Susanne Craig leaving WSJ for the NYT". cjr.org. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
    9. '^ "Journals Susanne Craig Jumps to New York Times DealBook Section". New York Magazine. August 30, 2010. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
    10. ^ a b "Winners since 1949 - National Newspaper Awards". nna-ccj.ca. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
    11. Wall Street Journal
      . Retrieved September 23, 2016.
    12. ^ a b "L.A. Times Columnist Wins Loeb Award". Los Angeles Times. June 30, 2004. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
    13. ^ "Susanne Craig". topics.nytimes.com. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
    14. ^ "Donald Trump Tax Records Show He Could Have Avoided Taxes for Nearly Two Decades, The Times Found". The New York Times. October 2, 2016.
    15. ^ "Tax documents are 'important window' into Trump". NBC News. October 4, 2016. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
    16. ^ "'It's much larger': Trump's financial penalty nightmare may not be over, NYT reporter says". Youtube. December 22, 2022. Retrieved May 3, 2024.
    17. ^ "ABOUT LUCKY LOSER". Retrieved April 29, 2024.
    18. ^ "2008 Gerald Loeb Award Winners Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management". Fast Company. October 28, 2011. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
    19. ^ "Loeb Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. June 29, 2009. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
    20. ^ Polk, Eileen (February 19, 2019). "New York Times Wins Two George Polk Awards". The New York Times. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
    21. ^ "Order of Canada appointees – December 2023". Governor General of Canada. December 22, 2023. Retrieved December 28, 2023.
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