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'''Susanne Craig''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|size=100%|CM}} is a Canadian [[investigative journalist]] and author who works at ''[[The New York Times]]''. She gained prominence for her reporting on [[Donald Trump]]'s finances, revealing his 1995 tax returns during the 2016 presidential election and co-authoring a 2018 investigation into Trump’sTrump's claims of self-made wealth and financial practices.
 
Craig received the [[Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting]] in 2019 for this work and continued to report and investigate on Trump's tax payments. She published her first book, ''[[Lucky Loser (book)|Lucky Loser]]'', with her colleague [[Russ Buettner]] on Donald Trump's financial and [[Business career of Donald Trump|business practices]] in 2024.
 
Craig is also known for her coverage of the [[financial crisis of 2007–2008]] and of [[Government of New York (state)|New York State]] and [[New York City government]] and politics. She also serves as an on-air analyst for [[MSNBC]], and previously worked for Canada's national newspaper ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' and ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''.
 
==Early life and education==
Craig was born in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]], growing up in its [[Charleswood, Calgary| Charleswood]] neighbourhood, and attended the [[University of Calgary]], graduating in 1991 with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in Political Science.<ref name=rookie>{{cite web|url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/alumni/awards/top40|title=Top 40 Alumni - Alumni - University of Calgary|access-date=13 August 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917062200/http://www.ucalgary.ca/alumni/awards/top40|archive-date=17 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/journalist-whose-pulitzer-worthy-work-skewered-trumps-business-claims-comes-home |title=Journalist whose Pulitzer-worthy work skewered Trump's business claims comes home |author=Kaufman, Bill |date=2019-09-06 |access-date=2024-10-09 |newspaper=The Calgary Herald }}</ref><ref name=gauntlet></ref> While at the University of Calgary, she volunteered as a reporter for the campus paper [[Gauntlet (newspaper) |''The Gauntlet'']] where she got her start in journalism.<ref name="gauntlet">{{cite web|url=https://ucalgary.ca/news/gauntlet-pulitzer-discover-susanne-craigs-journey|title=From the Gauntlet to a Pulitzer, Discover Susanne Craig's journey | access-date=13 August 2016 |newspaper=The Gauntlet}}</ref><ref name="uofc">{{cite web |url=https://ucalgary.ca/convocation/spring-2019/susanne-craig |title=Susanne Craig |website=University Of Calgary |access-date=2024-10-12}}</ref>
 
While at the University of Calgary, she volunteered as a reporter for the campus paper [[Gauntlet (newspaper) | ''The Gauntlet'']] where she got her start in journalism.<ref name=gauntlet>{{cite web|url=https://ucalgary.ca/news/gauntlet-pulitzer-discover-susanne-craigs-journey|title=From the Gauntlet to a Pulitzer, Discover Susanne Craig's journey | access-date=13 August 2016 |newspaper=The Gauntlet}}</ref><ref name=uofc>{{ cite web |url=https://ucalgary.ca/convocation/spring-2019/susanne-craig |title=Susanne Craig |website=University Of Calgary |access-date=2024-10-12}}</ref>
 
==Career==
 
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Craig began her career as a summer intern for the ''[[Calgary Herald]]'' in 1990 where she covered various city transit topics and the career of Canada's first elected senator, [[Stan Waters]]. Although she struggled finding work due to a lack of formal education in journalism, her experience at the ''Herald'' encouraged her to keep pursuing a career in reporting.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/former-calgary-herald-writer-at-heart-of-trump-tax-return-bombshell |title=Former Calgary Herald writer at heart of Trump tax return bombshell |author=Postmedia News |publisher=The Calgary Herald |date=2016-10-03 |access-date=2024-09-22 }}</ref>
 
Craig started ofoff as a summer [[intern]] for the ''[[Windsor Star]]'' in 1991, and after winning the inaugural [[Edward Goff Penny]] Memorial Prize for young journalists, she was offered a full-time job as a reporter at the paper in [[Windsor, Ontario]]. She then spent four years at ''The Star'' where she worked on reporting the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] and [[Heinz]]'s operations in [[Leamington, Ontario]].<ref name=WS></ref><ref name=cbc></ref>
 
Craig got introduced to business reporting after taking on a one-month contract with ''[[The Financial Post]]''. She then went on to join the ''[[The Globe and Mail]]'' in [[Toronto]] where she won the [[National Newspaper Award]] in Canada (Business – 1999) and also accepted an Honorable Mention [[Michener Award]] on behalf of the ''Globe''.<ref name=NNA-CCJ-1999>{{cite web|url=http://www.nna-ccj.ca/award-archives/list-of-winners-since-1949/|title=Winners since 1949 - National Newspaper Awards|website=nna-ccj.ca|access-date=13 August 2016}}</ref><ref name=cbc> {{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pulitzer-susanne-craig-new-york-times-trump-1.5273007 |title='Investigative journalism really matters,' says Pulitzer Prize winner from Calgary |author=Kost, Hannah |date=2019-09-06 |access-date=2024-10-09 |publisher=CBC News }}</ref><ref name=michener>{{cite web |url=https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record?app=fonandcol&IdNumber=4170924&wbdisable=true |title=Reporter Susanne Craig accepts 1999 Michener Honourable Mention award from Governor General Adrienne Clarkson on behalf of the Globe and Mail |date=2000-04-10 |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=Goverment of Canada}}</ref>
 
SheCraig then went on to become a reporter for the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' in 2001 where she became the recipient of several [[Gerald Loeb Award]]s including one for deadline writing on the resignation of New York Stock Exchange Chairman [[Richard Grasso]].<ref name=CJR></ref><ref name=cbc> {{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/pulitzer-susanne-craig-new-york-times-trump-1.5273007 |title='Investigative journalism really matters,' says Pulitzer Prize winner from Calgary |author=Kost, Hannah |date=2019-09-06 |access-date=2024-10-09 |publisher=CBC News }}</ref><ref name=LATimes-2004030></ref> Additionally, she was the lead journalist on a team that was a finalist for a [[Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting|Pulitzer Prize for National Affairs Reporting]] in relation to coverage of the [[Lehman Brothers]] and their role in the [[Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers|financial crisis of 2008]].<ref>{{ cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122152314746339697?msockid=048cd14039ad67581eb9c451385d66f5 |title=AIG, Lehman Shock Hits World Markets |author=Susanne Craig |date=2008-09-16 |access-date=2024-10-09 |url-access=subscription |id={{ProQuest|399089034}}}}</ref><ref>{{ cite web |url=https://ago.ca/events/power-money-and-trump-reporting-post-truth-president |website=Art Gallery of Ontario |title=Power, Money and Trump: Reporting on a Post-Truth President }}</ref>
 
===''The New York Times''===
 
In 2010, Craig joined ''The New York Times'' to continue reporting on [[Wall Street]] as part of its Businessbusiness section and DealBook newsletter. She was later promoted to the [[bureau chief]] of [[New York City Hall]] [[bureau chief]] for coverage of the New York State government in 2013 and moved to [[Albany, New York]] in 2014 to continue covering on state government and municipal politics.<ref name="timesunion.com">{{cite news |url=http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/198037/times-names-susanne-craig-as-albany-bureau-chief/|title=Times names Susanne Craig as Albany, New York bureau chief|date=29 October 2013|publisher=Hearst Communications |author=Sealer, Casey |newspaper=Times Union |access-date=23 September 2016}}</ref><ref name=CJR>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.cjr.org/the_audit/susanne_craig_leaving_wsj_for.php|title=Susanne Craig leaving WSJ for the NYT|work=Columbia Journalism Review |author=Starkman, Dean |date=2010-07-30|access-date=23 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=''Journal''{{'}}s Susanne Craig Jumps to New York ''Times'' DealBook Section|date=August 30, 2010 |url=https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2010/08/journals_susanne_craig_jumps_t.html|access-date=23 September 2016|publisher=New York Magazine|author=Rozvar, Chris}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/susanne_craig/index.html?version=meter%20at%203&contentId=&mediaId=&referrer=https://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/&priority=true&action=click&contentCollection=Times%20Insider&module=Byline&region=Header&pgtype=article|title=Susanne Craig|website=topics.nytimes.com|access-date=13 August 2016}}</ref>
 
On October 1, 2016, ''The New York Times'' published an article authored by Craig and her colleagues [[David Barstow]] and [[Megan Twohey]], which stated that [[Donald Trump]] had reported a loss of $916 million in 1995, which could have allowed him to avoid paying [[Income tax in the United States|income taxes]] for up to eighteen years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html|title=Donald Trump Tax Records Show He Could Have Avoided Taxes for Nearly Two Decades, The Times Found|date=October 2, 2016|work=The New York Times |author=Craig, Susanne and Barstow, David and Twohey, Megan and Buettner, Russ}}</ref><ref> {{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2016/10/02/496317209/nyt-reporter-on-reporting-on-leaked-trump-taxes |work=NPR |title='NYT' Reporter On Reporting On Leaked Trump Taxes |author=Martin, Michel |date=
2016-10-02 |access-date=2024-10-12}}</ref> In subsequent television interviews, Craig described having received a portion of Trump's 1995 tax records, around which the story was based on, in her mailbox from an anonymous sender.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tax documents are 'important window' into Trump|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/times-reporter-susanne-craig-thinks-tax-documents-are-important-window-n659001|access-date=2021-03-04|website=NBC News|date=October 4, 2016 |language=en |author=McFadden, Cynthia and Bailey, Chelsea}}</ref>
 
On October 2, 2018, the ''Times'' published a 14,000-word exposé co-authored by Craig, [[David Barstow]], and [[Russ Buettner]] titled “Trump"Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father.”"<ref>{{cite news |title=Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html?module=inline |author1=Craig, Susanne |author2=Barstow, David |author3=Buettner, Russ |date=2018-10-02 |access-date=2024-09-22 |work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/events/inside-blockbuster-new-york-times-trump-tax-story-susanne-craig/ |title=Inside the Blockbuster New York Times Trump Tax Story with Susanne Craig |website=Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism |date=2017-10-31 |access-date=2024-10-12}}</ref> The findings of the story was based on over 100,000 pages worth of documents, both public sources and private disclosures, that revealed the inner workings of Trump's financial practices and misleading statements about his self-made wealth and business empire. The most common form of financial crime reported was [[mortgage fraud|valuation fraud]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/10/times-report-trump-wealth-largely-based-on-tax-scams-and-bailouts-from-dad/ |title=Times Report: Trump Wealth Largely Based on Tax Scams and Bailouts From Dad |author=Drum, Kevin |publisher=Mother Jones |date=2018-10-02 |access-date=2024-09-22 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4850942 |title=Trump committed 'outright fraud': Why a blockbuster headline goes so far |date=2018-10-06 |author=Swain, Diana |access-date=2024-10-14 |work=CBC News }}</ref>
 
In 2019, Craig and the 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".<ref name="Pulitzer">{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/david-barstow-susanne-craig-and-russ-buettner-new-york-times|title=David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times |year=2019|work=Pulitzer.org |access-date=20 May 2021}}</ref> They also shared the 2019 [[George Polk Award]] for Political Reporting.<ref name=GP>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/politics/george-polk-awards.html|title=New York Times Wins Two George Polk Awards |last=Sullivan |first=Eileen |date=February 19, 2019|work=The New York Times |access-date=20 May 2021}}</ref>
On September 27, 2020, sheCraig and others further reported on Trump's tax record, demonstrating how Trump paid $750 in federal income tax during 2016 and no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html | title=Long-Concealed Records Show Trump's Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance |author=Craig, Susanne |author2=Buttner, Russ |author3=McIntire, Mike |work=The New York Times |date=2020-09-27 |access-date=2024-09-22 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/09/27/report-trump-only-paid-750-in-taxes-for-2016-and-2017/ |title=Report: Trump Only Paid $750 In Taxes For 2016 And 2017 |author=Reimann, Nicholas |work=Forbes |date=2020-09-27 |access-date=2024-10-14 }}</ref>
 
Craig has stated that since her coverage of Trump and his finances, she has received death threats and high-profile criticism including a lawsuit initiated against her, her colleagues and her paper by Trump, which was later dismissed.<ref name=WS>{{cite news |url=https://windsorstar.com/tag/pulitzer-prize/ |title=Former Star journalist Susanne Craig named to Order of Canada |date=2023-11-29 |access-date=2024-09-19 |author=MacLeod, Brian |publisher=The Windsor Star }}</ref>
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In interviews, Craig said she intended to present a fact-based account of Trump's alleged financial mismanagement, drawing attention to the contradictions between his public persona and private failures. The book was met with highly positive critical reception, especially for its investigative depth and narration of [[Fred Trump]]'s life and finances and how it bolstered his son's fortune.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/sep/26/lucky-loser-review-how-donald-trump-squandered-his-wealth |title=Lucky Loser review – how Donald Trump squandered his wealth |website=The Guardian |date=2024-09-26 |author=Delong, Brad |access-date=2024-09-28 }}</ref> Critics like [[Bethany Maclean]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' and [[John Cassidy (journalist)|John Cassidy]] of ''[[The New Yorker]]'' praised Craig for her sharp investigative lens and ability to transform complex financial records into compelling narratives.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/09/17/lucky-loser-donald-trump-finances-susanne-craig-russ-buettner-review/ |title=Donald Trump's financial failures are stunning. 'Lucky Loser' has the receipts |author=Mclean, Bethany |date=2024-09-17 |access-date=2024-09-17 |newspaper=The Washington Post }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/donald-trumps-many-lucky-breaks| author=Cassidy, John |title=Donald Trump’s Many Lucky Breaks |website=The New Yorker |date=2024-09-23 |access-date=2024-09-26}}</ref>
 
While praised for the pursuit of truth behind Trump’sTrump's financial empire, Craig faced public criticism from Trump's camp. Campaign advisor Steven Cheung dismissed the book as a "desperate attempt to interfere" in the [[2024 United States presidential election]]. Craig, however, has defended the integrity of her work, pointing to the years of rigorous fact-checking and source verification involved.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.axios.com/2024/09/17/trump-wealth-lucky-loser-book |title="Lucky loser:" New book details how Trump got rich |author=Peck, Emily |date=2024-09-17 |access-date=2024-09-17 |publisher=Axios }}</ref>
 
==Awards==
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* 2019 [[George Polk Award]] for Political Reporting, shared with the same two colleagues<ref name=GP></ref>
*2019 Honorary [[Legum Doctor|LLD]] from [[University of Calgary]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2019/04/24/gauntlet-alumna-wins-pulitzer-prize-awarded-honorary-degree-from-u-of-c/ |title=Gauntlet alumna wins Pulitzer Prize, awarded honorary degree from U of C |publisher=[[Gauntlet (newspaper)|The Gauntlet]] |author=Khoeler, Kristy |date=2019-04-15 |access-date=2024-09-09 }}</ref><ref name=lld> {{cite web |url=https://ucalgary.ca/news/class-2019-advocate-arts-and-pulitzer-prize-winning-investigative-reporter-honoured-during |title=Class of 2019: Advocate for the arts and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter honoured during convocation ceremonies |website=University of Calgary |date=2019-06-05 |access-date=2024-10-12 }}</ref>
*2021 [[Society of Professional Journalists]]’' NYC Club’sClub's [[Daniel Pearl]] Prize for Investigative Reporting shared with the same winners as the Pulitzer.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytco.com/press/times-wins-4-deadline-club-awards/ |title=Times Wins 4 Deadline Club Awards |website=The New York Times Company |date=2021-05-18 |access-date=2024-10-13 }}</ref>
*2023 Member of the [[Order of Canada]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gg.ca/en/order-canada-appointees-december-2023|title=Order of Canada appointees – December 2023 |date=December 22, 2023 |publisher=[[Governor General of Canada]]|accessdate=2023-12-28}}</ref>
 
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