Sanger was awarded , in 2004 , the Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting for his coverage of the Iraq and Korea crises . He also won the Aldo Beckman prize for coverage of the presidency . In both 2003 and 2007 he was awarded the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for coverage of national security strategy . 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. Broad , and their investigation into the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network . Their revelations in the '' Times '' about the network became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize . In 2011 , Sanger was part of another team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for International Reporting for their coverage of the Japanese tsunami and nuclear disaster
Japanese tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
David E. Sanger