Susanne Craig is a Canadian

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who works at ''

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''. She was the reporter who was anonymously mailed

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...

's 1995

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during the 2016 presidential election. In 2018, she 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. She won the

Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting The Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting has been presented since 1998, for a distinguished example of explanatory reporting that illuminates a significant and complex subject, demonstrating mastery of the subject, lucid writing and clear pr ...

in 2019 for this coverage. In 2020, she further reported on Donald Trump 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. Craig is also known for her coverage of the

financial crisis of 2007–2008 Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fi ...

and of

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and

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and politics.

Early life and education

Craig was born in

Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

, and attended the

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, graduating in 1991 with a B.A. in Political Science and Government.

Career

Craig began her career as a summer intern for the ''

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'' in 1990, and was a summer

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for the ''

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'' 1991; her first full-time job was as a reporter for the ''Windsor Star'' in

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. She originally wrote for ''

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'' before becoming a

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for the ''

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''. In 2010 she joined the ''New York Times'' to continue reporting on

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and was later promoted to

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for coverage of the New York State government. In 2015, Craig left Albany to become the Times'

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bureau chief. She is the recipient of the

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in Canada (Business - 1999) and several

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s. 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

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and their role in the

financial crisis of 2008 Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fi ...

. On October 1, 2016 the ''New York Times'' published an article co-authored by Craig, which stated that

had reported a loss of $916 million in 1995, which could have allowed him to avoid paying

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for up to eighteen years. 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. In 2019 she and two other reporters shared the

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". 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.

Awards

* 1999 National Newspaper Award * 2004 Gerald Loeb Award for Deadline Writing shared with

Ianthe Jeanne Dugan Ianthe Jeanne Dugan is an American journalist. She was an investigative reporter for ''The Wall Street Journal'' for 18 years''.'' She earned the Gerald Loeb Award in 2000 for Deadline and/or Beat Writing for her article "The Rise of Day Tradin ...

and Theo Frances for "The Day Grasso Quit as NYSE Chief" * 2008 Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Writing for "Breakdown at Bear Stearns" * 2009 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News for "The Day That Changed Wall Street" * 2019

shared with

David Barstow David Barstow (born 1963) is an American journalist and professor. While a reporter at ''The New York Times'' from 1999 to 2019, Barstow was awarded, individually or jointly, four Pulitzer Prizes, becoming the first reporter in the history of the ...

and

Russ Buettner Russ Buettner is an American investigative journalist who works for ''The New York Times''. In 2019 he and two colleagues received the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a 2018 series of articles about the finances of Donald Trump. Buet ...

for the

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...

. * 2019

George Polk Award The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the award ...

for Political Reporting, shared with the same two colleagues.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Craig, Susanne Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian investigative journalists University of Calgary alumni Writers from Calgary The New York Times writers The Wall Street Journal people Canadian expatriate journalists in the United States Gerald Loeb Award winners for Deadline and Beat Reporting Gerald Loeb Award winners for Breaking News Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners