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Michael S. Schmidt

November 01, 2023

Michael S. Schmidt (born September 1983) is a two time Pulitzer prize winning American journalist, author, and correspondent for The New York Times in Washington, D.C.[1] He covers national security and federal law enforcement, and has broken several high-profile stories.[2] He is also a national security contributor for MSNBC and NBC News.

Michael Schmidt
Born1983 (age 39–40)
Nyack, New York, U.S.
EducationLafayette College (AB)
Occupation(s)Journalist, author
SpouseNicolle Wallace (m. 2022)

Among the major stories he has broken was the existence of Hillary Clinton private email server. During the Trump presidency, he broke several major stories, including about the Mueller investigation, other investigations of Trump and Trump's efforts to overturn the election.

In 2018, he won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work the previous year.[3] He won one of the Pulitzer Prizes for breaking the news that President Trump had asked the FBI director James Comey for a loyalty pledge, and to close the federal investigation into Michael Flynn.[4] That story led the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel Robert S. Mueller III to investigate President Trump.[5]

With another reporter at the Times, Schmidt won a Pulitzer Prize for a story about sexual harassment allegations against Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly that led to Fox firing O'Reilly.[6] He shared the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the 2018 Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative business journalism for stories on the sexual predator allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein that led to the rise of the Me Too movement.[7][8]

In September 2020, Schmidt's first book, Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President, was released by Penguin Random House.[9][10][11] The book received positive reviews and rose to number three on The New York Times Best Seller list and number two on both Amazon and number two on the Wall Street Journal's best-seller list. [12]

Earlier in Schmidt's career he was a sports reporter and broke several major stories about doping in baseball including that Sammy Sosa,[13] David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. [14]

Early life and education edit

Schmidt was born to a Jewish family[15] in Nyack, New York. His parents are Rachel and James Schmidt. James Schmidt is a well known wealth manager. Michael Schmidt went to high school at John Randolph Tucker High School in Richmond, Virginia, where he played baseball.[16] He graduated from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, in 2005 with an AB in international affairs after co-founding and editing Marooned with classmate Erin Koen.[17][18]

Career edit

In 2004, Schmidt worked at The Boston Globe.[16]

Schmidt began working for The Times as a news clerk in 2005. In December 2007, he was made a staff reporter, covering performance-enhancing drugs and legal issues in sports.[19][20][21]

In 2009, Schmidt broke the stories that David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez [22] and Sammy Sosa[23] were among the roughly 100 players who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug in 2003.

In 2010, Schmidt broke the story about how the firm of baseball super agent Scott Boras had provided tens of thousands of dollars in loans to a young prospect, raising questions about whether Boras' firm had broken rules designed to prevent players from being exploited.[24]

Schmidt was a correspondent for The Times in Iraq in 2011. During his time in Iraq, he uncovered a series of classified documents in a junkyard in Baghdad. The documents were testimony from Marines about the 2005 Haditha Massacre. In that incident, the Marines had killed 26 Iraqi civilians. An Iraqi junkyard attendant had used other classified American documents to cook smoked carp.[25] The story, which ran as American troops were leaving Iraq in 2011, was widely praised.[26]

In May 2015, Schmidt was part of a group of Times reporters who broke a series of stories about the Justice Department charging FIFA executives. Schmidt was in the lobby of a hotel in Switzerland when law enforcement officers arrested the executives.[27]

In December 2015, a New York Times story by Schmidt and Matt Apuzzo (written together with Julia Preston) criticized the US government for missing crucial evidence during the visa vetting process for Tashfeen Malik, who would later become one of the shooters in the 2015 San Bernardino attack.[28] The director of the FBI dismissed the reporting as "garble" and it turned out that rather than having "talked openly on social media about her views on violent jihad" as stated in the article, she had mentioned these in private communications.[29] The New York Times' public editor called for "systemic changes" after these articles by Schmidt and his coauthors (both of which had relied on anonymous government sources).[29]

Schmidt has been one of the Times' lead reporters on the federal and Congressional investigations into connections between Donald Trump's associates and the Russians.[30] On March 5, 2017, Schmidt broke the story that the FBI director James Comey had asked the Justice Department to publicly refute Trump's claims that President Obama had him wire-tapped during the 2016 campaign.[30] Schmidt also broke several other stories about the Trump presidency, including that Trump ordered his chief of staff, John Kelly, to give his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a security clearance despite wide spread concerns in the intelligence community about Kushner having access to the country's most closely guarded secrets.[31]

Clinton email story edit

In March 2015, Schmidt broke the story that Hillary Clinton had exclusively used a personal email account when she was secretary of state.[32] The story said that Clinton "may have violated federal requirements that officials’ correspondence be retained as part of the agency's record." In response to the story, Mrs. Clinton announced that she would release all of her work related emails from her time in office.[33]

After breaking the story, he was the lead reporter covering the Hillary Clinton email controversy. Defenders of Hillary Clinton have said that Schmidt's coverage of her was not fair and he has been frequently criticized by the group Media Matters and other liberals.[34][35] After breaking the Clinton email story, Media Matters's founder and chairman, David Brock, wrote an open letter to The New York Times about the story, asking for a "prominent correction as soon as possible". The Times did not run a correction.[36] The inspector general for the State Department said in May 2016 that Clinton's use of the account had violated State Department's record keeping policies.[37]

Comey–Trump story edit

On May 16, 2017, Schmidt broke the story that James Comey, the former FBI director in the Trump Administration, had written an FBI memo detailing President Donald Trump's alleged ordering of Comey to end the FBI's investigation of Michael Flynn prior to the conclusion of the investigation's findings.[38] The story led the Justice Department to appoint the former FBI director Robert Mueller to investigate Trump, which eventually produced the Mueller report.[5]

Personal life edit

In April 2022, he married American cable tv news anchor Nicolle Wallace.[39]

References edit

  1. ^ Schmidt, Michael S. "Michael S. Schmidt - The New York Times". Topics.nytimes.com. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  2. ^ . The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 17, 2015. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  3. ^ "The Washington Post wins 2 Pulitzer Prizes for reporting on Russian interference and the Senate race in Alabama". The Washington Post.
  4. ^ Schmidt, Michael S. (May 16, 2017). "Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  5. ^ a b Ruiz, Rebecca R.; Landler, Mark (May 17, 2017). "Robert Mueller, Former F.B.I. Director, Is Named Special Counsel for Russia Investigation". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  6. ^ Steel, Emily; Schmidt, Michael S. (April 1, 2017). "Bill O'Reilly Thrives at Fox News, Even as Harassment Settlements Add Up". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  7. ^ "The New York Times, for reporting led by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, and The New Yorker, for reporting by Ronan Farrow". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
  8. ^ "UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2018 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". PR Newswire. June 25, 2018. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
  9. ^ "NYT reporter's new book makes explosive Russia, Mueller claims — that Times didn't report". Salon. August 31, 2020. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  10. ^ Palmer, Anna; Sherman, Jake. "POLITICO Playbook: Two sneak peeks from Michael Schmidt's new book". POLITICO. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  11. ^ Suri, Jeremi. "Review | White House insiders' failure to rein in Trump's tilt toward chaos and lawlessness". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved September 1, 2020.
  12. ^ "Bestselling Books Week Ended September 5". Wall Street Journal. September 10, 2020. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved October 27, 2020.
  13. ^ "Meet Michael Schmidt, the Young Times Writer Who Exposes Baseball's Worst". Observer. August 10, 2009. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
  14. ^ Schmidt, Michael S. (July 30, 2009). "Ortiz and Ramirez Said to Be on '03 Doping List". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
  15. ^ "Jewish Insider's Daily Kickoff: September 23, 2016". Haaretz. September 23, 2016.
  16. ^ a b John Koblin (August 10, 2009). "Meet Michael Schmidt, the Young Times Writer Who Exposes Baseball's Worst". The New York Observer. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  17. ^ "About · Lafayette College". Lafayette.edu. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  18. ^ "Michael Schmidt '05 Delivers Front Page Scoops at the New York Times". July 2017.
  19. ^ "U.S. investors are commodifying Dominican ballplayers - HardballTalk". NBC Sports. November 18, 2010. Retrieved July 11, 2015.
  20. ^ Schmidt, Michael S. (November 27, 2010). "Jeter Said to Be Asking $23 Million to $24 Million a Year". Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  21. ^
  22. ^ "Ortiz and Ramirez Said to Be on '03 Doping List". The New York Times. July 31, 2009. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  23. ^ "Sosa Is Said to Have Tested Positive in 2003". The New York Times. June 17, 2009. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  24. ^ Schmidt, Michael S. (November 23, 2010). "Sports Agent's Loans to Poor Players Pose Concerns". The New York Times. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  25. ^ "Junkyard Gives Up Secret Accounts of Massacre in Iraq". The New York Times. December 15, 2011. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  26. ^ "Q&A: New York Times Iraq reporter Michael S. Schmidt - Columbia Journalism Review". Cjr.org. Retrieved June 11, 2016.
  27. ^ "How The New York Times Staked Out A Swiss Hotel To Cover FIFA Arrests". The Huffington Post. May 27, 2015. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
  28. ^ Drum, Kevin (December 16, 2015). "Strike Two for Pair of New York Times Reporters". Mother Jones.
  29. ^ a b Sullivan, Margaret (December 18, 2015). "Systemic Change Needed After Faulty Times Article". The New York Times - Public Editor's Journal.
  30. ^ a b Schmidt, Michael S. (March 6, 2017). "White House Rejects Comey's Assertion That Wiretapping Claim Is False". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 9, 2017.
  31. ^ Haberman, Maggie; Schmidt, Michael S.; Goldman, Adam; Karni, Annie (February 28, 2019). "Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
  32. ^ Schmidt, Michael S. (March 2, 2015). "Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email Account at State Dept., Possibly Breaking Rules". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
  33. ^ "Hillary Clinton Says She's Asked State Department to Release Emails - NBC News". NBC News. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
  34. ^ "New York Times Reporter Acknowledges He Doesn't Know How Other Agencies Responded To Issa's Email Inquiry". Media Matters for America. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
  35. ^ Schmidt, Michael S.; Apuzzo, Matt (April 7, 2015). "South Carolina Officer Is Charged With Murder of Walter Scott". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
  36. ^ "David Brock Calls On The New York Times To Issue "Prominent Correction" To Sloppy Clinton Email Reporting". Media Matters for America. March 3, 2015. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  37. ^ "State Department inspector general finds Hillary Clinton violated recordkeeping rules". Mother Jones. Retrieved March 15, 2017.
  38. ^ Schmidt, Michael S. (May 16, 2017). "Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
  39. ^ Quinn, Dave; Patterson, Charmaine (April 5, 2022). "MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace Marries Michael Schmidt". People. from the original on April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2022.

External links edit

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  • Michael S. Schmidt on Twitter

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Michael S Schmidt born September 1983 is a two time Pulitzer prize winning American journalist author and correspondent for The New York Times in Washington D C 1 He covers national security and federal law enforcement and has broken several high profile stories 2 He is also a national security contributor for MSNBC and NBC News Michael SchmidtBorn1983 age 39 40 Nyack New York U S EducationLafayette College AB Occupation s Journalist authorSpouseNicolle Wallace m 2022 Among the major stories he has broken was the existence of Hillary Clinton private email server During the Trump presidency he broke several major stories including about the Mueller investigation other investigations of Trump and Trump s efforts to overturn the election In 2018 he won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work the previous year 3 He won one of the Pulitzer Prizes for breaking the news that President Trump had asked the FBI director James Comey for a loyalty pledge and to close the federal investigation into Michael Flynn 4 That story led the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel Robert S Mueller III to investigate President Trump 5 With another reporter at the Times Schmidt won a Pulitzer Prize for a story about sexual harassment allegations against Fox News personality Bill O Reilly that led to Fox firing O Reilly 6 He shared the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the 2018 Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative business journalism for stories on the sexual predator allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein that led to the rise of the Me Too movement 7 8 In September 2020 Schmidt s first book Donald Trump v The United States Inside the Struggle to Stop a President was released by Penguin Random House 9 10 11 The book received positive reviews and rose to number three on The New York Times Best Seller list and number two on both Amazon and number two on the Wall Street Journal s best seller list 12 Earlier in Schmidt s career he was a sports reporter and broke several major stories about doping in baseball including that Sammy Sosa 13 David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance enhancing drugs 14 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2 1 Clinton email story 2 2 Comey Trump story 3 Personal life 4 References 5 External linksEarly life and education editSchmidt was born to a Jewish family 15 in Nyack New York His parents are Rachel and James Schmidt James Schmidt is a well known wealth manager Michael Schmidt went to high school at John Randolph Tucker High School in Richmond Virginia where he played baseball 16 He graduated from Lafayette College in Easton Pennsylvania in 2005 with an AB in international affairs after co founding and editing Marooned with classmate Erin Koen 17 18 Career editIn 2004 Schmidt worked at The Boston Globe 16 Schmidt began working for The Times as a news clerk in 2005 In December 2007 he was made a staff reporter covering performance enhancing drugs and legal issues in sports 19 20 21 In 2009 Schmidt broke the stories that David Ortiz Manny Ramirez 22 and Sammy Sosa 23 were among the roughly 100 players who tested positive for a performance enhancing drug in 2003 In 2010 Schmidt broke the story about how the firm of baseball super agent Scott Boras had provided tens of thousands of dollars in loans to a young prospect raising questions about whether Boras firm had broken rules designed to prevent players from being exploited 24 Schmidt was a correspondent for The Times in Iraq in 2011 During his time in Iraq he uncovered a series of classified documents in a junkyard in Baghdad The documents were testimony from Marines about the 2005 Haditha Massacre In that incident the Marines had killed 26 Iraqi civilians An Iraqi junkyard attendant had used other classified American documents to cook smoked carp 25 The story which ran as American troops were leaving Iraq in 2011 was widely praised 26 In May 2015 Schmidt was part of a group of Times reporters who broke a series of stories about the Justice Department charging FIFA executives Schmidt was in the lobby of a hotel in Switzerland when law enforcement officers arrested the executives 27 In December 2015 a New York Times story by Schmidt and Matt Apuzzo written together with Julia Preston criticized the US government for missing crucial evidence during the visa vetting process for Tashfeen Malik who would later become one of the shooters in the 2015 San Bernardino attack 28 The director of the FBI dismissed the reporting as garble and it turned out that rather than having talked openly on social media about her views on violent jihad as stated in the article she had mentioned these in private communications 29 The New York Times public editor called for systemic changes after these articles by Schmidt and his coauthors both of which had relied on anonymous government sources 29 Schmidt has been one of the Times lead reporters on the federal and Congressional investigations into connections between Donald Trump s associates and the Russians 30 On March 5 2017 Schmidt broke the story that the FBI director James Comey had asked the Justice Department to publicly refute Trump s claims that President Obama had him wire tapped during the 2016 campaign 30 Schmidt also broke several other stories about the Trump presidency including that Trump ordered his chief of staff John Kelly to give his son in law Jared Kushner a security clearance despite wide spread concerns in the intelligence community about Kushner having access to the country s most closely guarded secrets 31 Clinton email story edit In March 2015 Schmidt broke the story that Hillary Clinton had exclusively used a personal email account when she was secretary of state 32 The story said that Clinton may have violated federal requirements that officials correspondence be retained as part of the agency s record In response to the story Mrs Clinton announced that she would release all of her work related emails from her time in office 33 After breaking the story he was the lead reporter covering the Hillary Clinton email controversy Defenders of Hillary Clinton have said that Schmidt s coverage of her was not fair and he has been frequently criticized by the group Media Matters and other liberals 34 35 After breaking the Clinton email story Media Matters s founder and chairman David Brock wrote an open letter to The New York Times about the story asking for a prominent correction as soon as possible The Times did not run a correction 36 The inspector general for the State Department said in May 2016 that Clinton s use of the account had violated State Department s record keeping policies 37 Comey Trump story edit On May 16 2017 Schmidt broke the story that James Comey the former FBI director in the Trump Administration had written an FBI memo detailing President Donald Trump s alleged ordering of Comey to end the FBI s investigation of Michael Flynn prior to the conclusion of the investigation s findings 38 The story led the Justice Department to appoint the former FBI director Robert Mueller to investigate Trump which eventually produced the Mueller report 5 Personal life editIn April 2022 he married American cable tv news anchor Nicolle Wallace 39 References edit Schmidt Michael S Michael S Schmidt The New York Times Topics nytimes com Retrieved June 11 2016 Michael S Schmidt Educational Small Group Tour Travel Times Journeys The New York Times Archived from the original on July 17 2015 Retrieved July 11 2015 The Washington Post wins 2 Pulitzer Prizes for reporting on Russian interference and the Senate race in Alabama The Washington Post Schmidt Michael S May 16 2017 Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved May 20 2017 a b Ruiz Rebecca R Landler Mark May 17 2017 Robert Mueller Former F B I Director Is Named Special Counsel for Russia Investigation The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved May 20 2017 Steel Emily Schmidt Michael S April 1 2017 Bill O Reilly Thrives at Fox News Even as Harassment Settlements Add Up The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved May 20 2017 The New York Times for reporting led by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey and The New Yorker for reporting by Ronan Farrow The Pulitzer Prizes Retrieved February 19 2019 UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2018 Gerald Loeb Award Winners PR Newswire June 25 2018 Retrieved January 31 2019 NYT reporter s new book makes explosive Russia Mueller claims that Times didn t report Salon August 31 2020 Retrieved September 1 2020 Palmer Anna Sherman Jake POLITICO Playbook Two sneak peeks from Michael Schmidt s new book POLITICO Retrieved September 1 2020 Suri Jeremi Review White House insiders failure to rein in Trump s tilt toward chaos and lawlessness Washington Post ISSN 0190 8286 Retrieved September 1 2020 Bestselling Books Week Ended September 5 Wall Street Journal September 10 2020 ISSN 0099 9660 Retrieved October 27 2020 Meet Michael Schmidt the Young Times Writer Who Exposes Baseball s Worst Observer August 10 2009 Retrieved December 11 2022 Schmidt Michael S July 30 2009 Ortiz and Ramirez Said to Be on 03 Doping List The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved December 11 2022 Jewish Insider s Daily Kickoff September 23 2016 Haaretz September 23 2016 a b John Koblin August 10 2009 Meet Michael Schmidt the Young Times Writer Who Exposes Baseball s Worst The New York Observer Retrieved July 11 2015 About Lafayette College Lafayette edu Retrieved June 11 2016 Michael Schmidt 05 Delivers Front Page Scoops at the New York Times July 2017 U S investors are commodifying Dominican ballplayers HardballTalk NBC Sports November 18 2010 Retrieved July 11 2015 Schmidt Michael S November 27 2010 Jeter Said to Be Asking 23 Million to 24 Million a Year Retrieved June 11 2016 New York Observer Ah Yes Michael Schmidt Again John Koblin August 19 2010 Ortiz and Ramirez Said to Be on 03 Doping List The New York Times July 31 2009 Retrieved June 11 2016 Sosa Is Said to Have Tested Positive in 2003 The New York Times June 17 2009 Retrieved June 11 2016 Schmidt Michael S November 23 2010 Sports Agent s Loans to Poor Players Pose Concerns The New York Times Retrieved June 11 2016 Junkyard Gives Up Secret Accounts of Massacre in Iraq The New York Times December 15 2011 Retrieved June 11 2016 Q amp A New York Times Iraq reporter Michael S Schmidt Columbia Journalism Review Cjr org Retrieved June 11 2016 How The New York Times Staked Out A Swiss Hotel To Cover FIFA Arrests The Huffington Post May 27 2015 Retrieved December 22 2015 Drum Kevin December 16 2015 Strike Two for Pair of New York Times Reporters Mother Jones a b Sullivan Margaret December 18 2015 Systemic Change Needed After Faulty Times Article The New York Times Public Editor s Journal a b Schmidt Michael S March 6 2017 White House Rejects Comey s Assertion That Wiretapping Claim Is False The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved March 9 2017 Haberman Maggie Schmidt Michael S Goldman Adam Karni Annie February 28 2019 Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved December 11 2022 Schmidt Michael S March 2 2015 Hillary Clinton Used Personal Email Account at State Dept Possibly Breaking Rules The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved December 22 2015 Hillary Clinton Says She s Asked State Department to Release Emails NBC News NBC News Retrieved December 22 2015 New York Times Reporter Acknowledges He Doesn t Know How Other Agencies Responded To Issa s Email Inquiry Media Matters for America Retrieved December 22 2015 Schmidt Michael S Apuzzo Matt April 7 2015 South Carolina Officer Is Charged With Murder of Walter Scott The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved December 22 2015 David Brock Calls On The New York Times To Issue Prominent Correction To Sloppy Clinton Email Reporting Media Matters for America March 3 2015 Retrieved March 15 2017 State Department inspector general finds Hillary Clinton violated recordkeeping rules Mother Jones Retrieved March 15 2017 Schmidt Michael S May 16 2017 Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved May 17 2017 Quinn Dave Patterson Charmaine April 5 2022 MSNBC s Nicolle Wallace Marries Michael Schmidt People Archived from the original on April 6 2022 Retrieved April 6 2022 External links edit nbsp Biography portal nbsp Journalism portalNews articles by Michael S Schmidt of The New York Times Michael S Schmidt on Twitter Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Michael S Schmidt amp oldid 1182864507, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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