David E. Sanger (born July 5, 1960) is an American journalist who is the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, writing since 1982, covering foreign policy, globalization, nuclear proliferation, and the presidency.

He has been a member of three teams that won the Pulitzer Prize, and has been awarded numerous honors for national security and foreign policy coverage.

In a 42-year career at the paper, he has reported from New York, Tokyo, and Washington, specializing in foreign policy, national security, and the politics of globalization.

He wrote some of the first pieces describing North Korea's a nuclear weapons program, the rise and fall of Japan as one of the world's economic powerhouses, and China's emerging role.

He also shared the American Society of Newspaper Editors' top award for deadline writing in 2004, for team coverage of the Columbia disaster.

In 2007, The New York Times received the DuPont Award from the Columbia Journalism School for Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?, a documentary featuring him and colleague William J.

In a March 2016 interview,[12] Sanger questioned Donald J. Trump, who was running for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, about his views on foreign policy.

In 2009, Sanger's first book is The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power, based on his seven years as the Times White House correspondent, covering two wars, the confrontations with Iran, North Korea and other states that are described in Western media as "rogue" states, and America's efforts to deal with the rise of China.

In 2016, General James Cartwright, then the retired Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pleaded guilty to making false statements in connection with the unauthorized disclosure of classified information about the military use of the Stuxnet computer worm on the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility,[17][18] some of which appeared in Sanger's 2012 book Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power.