Susanne Craig

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Susanne Craig
CM
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Craig in 2024
Born
Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Citizenship
  • Canada
  • United States
Alma mater University of Calgary (BA)
Occupations
Years active1991-present
Employer The New York Times
Awards Pulitzer Prize, Order of Canada
Website Work Profile

Susanne Craig CM is a Canadian investigative journalist who works at The New York Times . She was the reporter to whom Donald Trump's 1995 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]

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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. [3] Craig is also known for her coverage of the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and of New York State and New York City government and politics.

Early life and education

Craig was born in Calgary, Alberta, growing up in its Charleswood neighbourhood, 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] She also became friends with fellow student and future Mayor of Calgary Naheed Nenshi.

Career

Career beginnings

Craig began her career as a summer intern for the Calgary Herald in 1990, and was a summer 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 The Globe and Mail before becoming a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal . [7] In 2010, she joined the New York Times to continue reporting on Wall Street and was later promoted to 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]

The New York Times and Trump

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 2021, 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 17, 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]

According to The Washington Post, the book revealed how Fred Trump gave his son “almost endless collateral for loans, connections in banking and politics, and a reliable wellspring of cash to pursue dreams and fame.” Further, it was reported that much of the glamour behind The Apprentice was fake, staged or exaggerated. [18] Trump’s campaign advisor Steven Cheung labelled the book as lies and claimed the book was "a desperate attempt to interfere" in the 2024 United States presidential election. [19]

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  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. 1 2 3 "David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times". Pulitzer.org. 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2021.
  3. ↑ Buettner, Russ; Craig, Susanne; McIntire, Mike (September 27, 2020). "Trump's Taxes Show Chronic Losses and Years of Income Tax Avoidance". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved September 28, 2020.
  4. 1 2 "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.
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