Michael S. Schmidt
American journalist and author
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| April 2024 | Broke a story revealing that nearly half the Chinese swimming team tested positive for a banned drug before the 2021 Summer Olympics but were not sanctioned. |
| 2023 | Broke the story about Tucker Carlson's text messages that led to his departure from Fox News. |
| November 2023 | Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace welcomed a baby girl. |
| March 2023 | Netflix announced Schmidt as an executive producer and co-creator of a limited series titled 'Zero Day', starring Robert De Niro and directed by Lesli Linka Glatter. |
| April 2022 | Michael S. Schmidt married American cable TV news anchor Nicolle Wallace. |
| September 2020 | Published his first book, 'Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President', which rose to number three on The New York Times Best Seller list. |
| 2018 | Won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and the Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative Business Journalism for stories about sexual predator allegations against Harvey Weinstein that catalyzed the Me Too movement. |
| 2018 | Won two Pulitzer Prizes: one for breaking the story about President Trump asking FBI director James Comey for a loyalty pledge and to close the Michael Flynn investigation, and another with Emily Steel for exposing sexual harassment allegations against Bill O'Reilly that led to his firing from Fox News. |
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