Susan Crabtree is an author and a political

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for

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. She previously served as a senior writer for ''

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'' and spent five years as a White House Correspondent for the ''

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''. Prior stints include seven years as a senior editor and investigative reporter for '' The Hill''. She is a frequent guest political analyst on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC as well as numerous radio shows. Before joining ''The Hill'', Crabtree covered Congress for ''

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''. She also spent three years as a reporter for ''

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'' newspaper, chronicling the House Republican leadership, Congress' response to the

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om 2001, as well as trade disputes and spending battles. Crabtree has written for several magazines, including ''The Weekly Standard'' and ''The Economist''-owned ''Capital Style'', where she was a senior writer. She graduated with honors in broadcast journalism and political science from the

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. Crabtree was awarded the 2024 Dao Prize by the

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for her investigation of the

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after the assassination attempt on President

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.Brown, Spencer
Breakthrough Investigation of U.S. Secret Service Awarded $100,000 at NJC’s 2024 Dao Prize Dinner.
National Journalism Center. November 14, 2024.

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Living people University of Southern California alumni American political writers American women journalists The Washington Times people 1970s births USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism alumni Journalists from Kansas People from Topeka, Kansas 21st-century American women Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-journalist-1970s-stub