Susan Glasser

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Susan Glasser
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Glasser in 2022
Born (1969-01-14) January 14, 1969 (age 56)
Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.
Education Harvard University (BA)
OccupationJournalist
Spouse
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(m. 2000)​
Children Theo Baker

Susan B. Glasser (born January 14, 1969) is an American journalist. She writes the online column "Letter from Trump's Washington" in The New Yorker , where she is a staff writer. She is the author, with her husband Peter Baker, of Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution (2005), The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III (2020), and The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 (2022).

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Early life and education

Glasser is the daughter of Lynn (née Schreiber) and Stephen Glasser. [1] [2] She is of Jewish descent. [3] Her parents are the founders of a weekly legal newspaper, Legal Times , and a legal and business publishing company, Glasser Legal Works. [1] [4] [5] Her grandfather, Melvin Glasser, supervised the field trials for the polio vaccine. [6] [7] [8] She was raised in Montclair, New Jersey, and attended Montclair High School, before transferring to Phillips Academy after her sophomore year. [9] Glasser graduated cum laude from Harvard University, [1] where she served as the managing editor of The Harvard Crimson . [10]

Career

Glasser interned, and later worked for eight years, at Roll Call . [11] In 1998, Glasser started at The Washington Post , [11] where she spent a decade. She edited the Post's Sunday Outlook and national news sections, helped oversee coverage of Bill Clinton's impeachment, covered the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan, and served as Moscow bureau co-chief with her husband, Peter Baker.

She was editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy until 2013. [11] Glasser then joined Politico and served as editor during the 2016 election cycle. [11] She also was the founding editor of Politico Magazine , a long-form publication both online and in print. [12]

Works

Personal life

In September 2000, Glasser married Peter Baker in a civil ceremony. [1] Her husband is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times . [13] Baker and Glasser live in Washington. [14]

Their son, Theo Baker, became the youngest person to win a Polk Award in 2023 for reporting that led to the resignation of Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the then president of Stanford University, who had allegedly manipulated images used in research papers. [15] [16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "WEDDINGS; Susan Glasser, Peter Baker". The New York Times . September 10, 2000. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Miss Lynn Schreiber and Stephen Andrew Glasser were wed. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Paul Schreiber. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin A. Glasser". The Daily Mail from Hagerstown, Maryland. December 31, 1965.
  3. ↑ Kampeas, Ron (May 24, 2022). "Russia Bans Entry To Numerous US Jews, Including LDB President Alyza Lewin". Jewish Telegraphic Agency – via Brandeis Center.
  4. ↑ "Lynn S. Glasser + Stephen A. Glasser". Sandpiper Partners LLC. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
  5. ↑ Marcus, Ruth (May 28, 1986). "Legal Times Sold To Editor of American Lawyer". Washington Post .
  6. ↑ Saxon, Wolfgang (March 17, 1995). "Melvin Glasser, 79, Supervisor Of Field Trials of Salk Vaccine". New York Times .
  7. ↑ "Melvin A. Glasser (1915 - 1995)". National Association of Social Workers Foundation. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  8. ↑ Schudel, Matt (February 3, 2008). "Esther K. Glasser Social Worker". Washington Post .
  9. ↑ Orel, Gwen. "Open Book/Open Mind: Montclair native Susan Glasser and Peter Baker", Montclair Local, November 29, 2020. Accessed February 22, 2025. "Glasser, a staff writer for The New Yorker, grew up in Montclair.... She worked on the newspaper at Montclair High School before she left to spend junior and senior year at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass."
  10. ↑ "Susan B. Glasser". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
  11. 1 2 3 4 "Susan B. Glasser". Politico Magazine. Retrieved September 16, 2022.
  12. ↑ "The Trump White House's War Within". politico.com. July 24, 2017. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Will Peter Baker be NY Times next Jerusalem bureau chief? | Jewish Telegraphic Agency". Jta.org. November 19, 2015. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
  14. ↑ "Peter Baker + Susan Glasser: At the Top of Their Game". Inspicio. Florida International University . Retrieved September 16, 2022.
  15. ↑ Robertson, Katie (February 20, 2023). "New York Times Wins 3 Polk Awards". The New York Times. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
  16. ↑ Asimov, Nanette (February 17, 2023). "Student paper: Scientists say study by Stanford president contained false data". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
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