Biography
Glenn Thrush is an American journalist, commentator, and author who previously worked as a White House journalist and is now a reporter for The New York Times covering the Department of Justice.He is also a contributor for MSNBC, having previously served as Politico’s top political correspondent and senior staff writer.
Age
He is 57 years old as of April 6, 2024. He was born in 1967 in Brooklyn, NY, the United States.
Family – Education
Thrush grew up in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and graduated from Sheepshead Bay High School in 1984. His parents had a Carvel Ice Cream shop in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.Thrush graduated from Brooklyn College, where he studied political science and Greek classics. Thrush identifies as a secular Jew.
Wife
Thrush is married to Diane Webber, an NPR editor, and they live in Kensington, Maryland.They have twin sons.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.
SNL
Bobby Moynihan played Thrush on several episodes of Saturday Night Live, talking with White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer (Melissa McCarthy). Thrush credited his SNL appearance with improving his profile, stating that “it probably gets my phone calls answered a little bit more quickly.”
Career
Thrush began his announcing profession working for the lower Manhattan week by week paper Downtown Express. He was schooling and legislative issues columnist for the now old Post Messenger in Birmingham, Alabama, and later a correspondent and supervisor for the New York strategy diary City Cutoff points, where he covered low pay lodging and youngster government assistance during the organization of Chairman Rudy Giuliani. He joined Bloomberg News to cover the New York City medical clinic industry in the mid 00s, and later worked for Newsday as a City Corridor journalist, covering Chairman Michael Bloomberg.
Thrush covered Hillary Clinton’s official mission in 2008 for Newsday, and afterward joined Politico in July 2008. In December 2016, it was accounted for that Thrush would join The New York Times covering the White House beginning on January 3, 2017. Thrush was suspended from his situation in November 2017 in the midst of claims of sexual unfortunate behavior. In January 2018, he got back to The New York Times following a two-month suspension.
Thrush composed two digital books about President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-appointment crusade. Obama’s Final turning point was distributed in August 2012, and As far as it goes: Romney versus Obama: The 34 days that Concluded the Political decision was distributed after the political decision in December 2012.
Thrush went under analysis after messages delivered by Wikileaks (the Podesta messages) showed Thrush sending John Podesta segments of a draft article that managed Podesta, asking that he reality really take a look at those bits.
In November 2017, Vox distributed an article containing the records of four female columnists who said that Thrush took part in improper sexual way of behaving toward them. The episodes retold in the Vox tale about Thrush include four ladies north of a five-year time span while he worked at Politico, and the ladies claimed Thrush grabbed and kissed them despite their desire to the contrary. One lady asserted Thrush took part in office tattle about her following an undesirable kiss. In a proclamation distributed on his Facebook page, Thrush questioned blabbering about the lady. After the distribution of the article, The New York Times suspended Thrush.
On December 20, 2017, The New York Times detailed after an examination that Thrush was forever taken out from covering the White House and would stay suspended until late January 2018. The Times determined Thrush would be reassigned to a beat about the “social wellbeing net in the period of Trump, especially HUD and HHS.” It has been noted Thrush was moved to a subject that enormously influences ladies and that covering the social security net is thought of as a “discipline” or downgrade from covering the White House. He was likewise expected to go through unknown “preparing intended to further develop his work environment lead,” as indicated by a proclamation by Times Chief Proofreader Dignitary Baquet. The social request talked with 30 individuals from inside and beyond the paper in Washington and New York and was driven by an interior lawyer Charlotte Behrendt. Carolyn Ryan, a collaborator overseeing proofreader at The Times, said of the request, “individuals who worked most intimately with Glenn in the authority — men, ladies, youthful, old — were steady of him and accepted that he could contribute and hadn’t seen the sort of conduct that had been depicted.”