Serge F. Kovaleski

Serge F. Kovaleski is an investigative reporter at the New York Times.[1] He was born in Cape Town, South Africa,[1] and graduated in 1984 from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, having majored in philosophy.[2] He contributed to reporting that won the New York Times a Pulitzer Prize for its investigation of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.[2][3][4]

He has also worked for the Washington Post, the New York Daily News, Money magazine and the Miami News.[1]

Controversies

In November 2015, Donald Trump made the following remarks when alleging that Kovaleski was backing away from what he wrote in an article for the Washington Post a few days after the September 11 attacks:

"Now the poor guy, you ought to see this guy", Mr. Trump said, before jerking his arms around and holding his right hand at an angle. "'Ah, I don't know what I said! I don't remember!'"[5]

The remarks became controversial over the question of whether Trump was mocking Kovalesky's physical condition, as Kovalesky has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition that involves contracture of the joints in his body and gives him a distinctive appearance. Trump later said that he could not have been mocking Kovalesky's disability[5] because he didn't know what Kovalesky looked like. However, to point out that Trump was lying, in subsequent interviews, Kovalesky said that he had been on a first-name basis with Trump, and had had perhaps a dozen face-to-face encounters with him, including interviews and press conferences, while reporting on Trump's career in the late 1980s.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Serge F. Kovaleski". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  2. 1 2 "Serge Kovaleski ('84) earns Pulitzer Prize". College of William and Mary. May 28, 2009. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  3. ↑ "The Pulitzer Prizes: Spitzer Wrestles Over Response, Paralyzing Albany: Wife Said to Urge Fighting On". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2009. Retrieved 2015-11-27. line feed character in |title= at position 72 (help)
  4. ↑ Kovaleski, Serge F.; Urbina, Ian (March 13, 2008). "The Pulitzer Prizes: The Young Woman in Question, 22 and Worried About the Rent". The New York Times (republished by The Pulitzer Prizes for 2009 award recognition). Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  5. 1 2 3 "Donald Trump Says His Mocking of New York Times Reporter Was Misread". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  6. ↑ Jose A. DelReal (November 26, 2015). "Trump draws scornful rebuke for mocking reporter with disability". Washington Post. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
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