Dareh Ardashes Gregorian

Background

Dareh Ardashes Gregorian was born on March 24, 1970, in Austin, Texas, to Vartan Gregorian and Clare Russell Gregorian. His father was an academic, historian, and institutional leader who later headed the New York Public Library and Carnegie Corporation of New York. Gregorian spent part of his youth in New York during his father's leadership of the library.

His family background connected him with Armenian-American intellectual and civic life. His brothers include Vahé Gregorian and Raffi Gregorian.

Education

Gregorian attended Boston University from 1988 to 1992 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree. Boston University, founded in 1839, is a private research university whose broad liberal-arts and professional programs have supported students entering journalism, public service, and other professions.

His university education preceded a career in metropolitan newspaper reporting, beginning with research and reporting at the New York Observer and continuing through increasingly specialized assignments at the New York Post.

Career

Gregorian began his journalism career as a reporter and researcher at the New York Observer from 1992 to 1993. The Observer was a New York weekly known for metropolitan reporting and coverage of the city's political, cultural, and social life.

He joined the New York Post in 1993 as a typist and part-time reporter. He later covered the police beat from 1996 to 1997, worked as a general-assignment exchange reporter from 1997 to 1998, and became a Supreme Court reporter in 1998. The New York Post, founded in 1801 and relaunched in its modern tabloid form in 1931, is one of New York City's major daily newspapers; court and police reporting have traditionally been important parts of its metropolitan coverage.

Gregorian subsequently worked for the New York Daily News, where his responsibilities included reporting and political editing. The Daily News, founded in 1919, developed as a major mass-circulation New York newspaper with extensive local, municipal, and national coverage. In 2019 he joined NBC News, where he has worked as a politics reporter covering political institutions, government, elections, and legal developments for a national television and digital news organization.

Membership

Gregorian is a member of the New York Press Club, a professional organization for journalists that promotes journalism, professional exchange, and recognition of reporting in the New York region.

• Member

  New York Press Club , United States

Personality

In an interview about his work at the New York Post, Gregorian described an interest in unusual and unexpected city stories and emphasized the challenge of handling several areas of reporting at once.

Connections

Gregorian is the son of Vartan Gregorian and Clare Russell Gregorian. He married journalist Maggie Lindsy Haberman on November 9, 2003, after they met while working in New York journalism. They have three children.

Father:

Vartan Gregorian

Academic, historian, and institutional leader who served as president of the New York Public Library and Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Mother:

Clare Russell Gregorian

Wife:

Maggie Lindsy Haberman

Journalist; married Gregorian on November 9, 2003.

References

• Countdown to Bliss Observer report documenting Gregorian's engagement and forthcoming marriage to journalist Maggie Haberman, as well as his work as a New York Post reporter.
  2003