Maggie Haberman married Dareh Ardashes Gregorian in a Manhattan Rooftop Ceremony in New York City in 2003.

Gregoria, the son of Vartan Gregorian, is a reporter for the New York Daily News, having previously worked at the New York Post.

He also writes for NBC news.

Following in his father’s footsteps, Gregorian aimed to write about stories that matter in today’s societal consciousness.

Today, the husband-and-wife duo is virtually unstoppable when it comes to top-quality American reporting.

About Dareh Ardashes Gregorian

Gregorian was born in March 1970 in Austin, Texas.

He is the son of the Iranian-American academic, Vartan Gregorian, who is best known as the president of the philanthropic ‘Carnegie Corporation of New York.’

Although he is best known as the spouse of Maggie Haberman, Gregorian has an impressive and extensive reporting career of his own.

Not much is known about his early life, other than his passion for journalism stemming from his father’s profession.

His mother was the chairwoman of Literacy Partners, an organization that provided professional development for educators in literacy, explaining Gregorian’s passion for reading and writing about the inner workings of New York City.

He developed a keen interest in politics and current affairs through his parents’ work, hoping to perfect his writing skills by pursuing higher education.

He enrolled in Boston University in 1988, the same year his father became president of the institution.

Gregorian graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication in 1992.

Gregorian accepted a position as a reporter for the New York Observer upon graduation, quickly becoming one of the newspaper’s best reporters on staff.

The publication, which ran in print from the 1980s before moving online in 2016, covered topics from culture and politics to media. 

A few months in, he was promoted to researcher and was later headhunted by the New York Post, who hired him as a reporter and editor.

As part of The Post, Gregorian served as a full-time reporter for six years, where he covered major political news and focused on articles regarding the Supreme Court of the United States. 

In 2013, he moved to the New York Daily News, the most widely circulated newspaper in the United States.

Three years in, he was promoted to political editor, a role he has remained in since 2016.

Due to the timing of his post, Gregorian has spent much of his career as a political journalist covering the presidency of Donald Trump, a fact he has expressed his frustration with.

While working at the Post, he met Maggie Haberman, who would become the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist at the forefront of coverage of the Trump Administration.

Who Was His Father?

Gregorian’s father, Vartan Gregorian, was an Iran-born Armenian-American who earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

He dedicated his life as a historian to teaching about the Muslim World, working in many reputable institutions across the United States.

Vartan Gregorian was first known for serving as president of the New York Public Library from 1989 to 1997, where he focused on financially stabilizing the library and reiving its cultural importance.

Before joining Carnegie, he became the first foreign-born president of Brown University.

His work has been internationally recognized, and he was even awarded the United States Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004. 

His son, Dareh Ardashes Gregorian, had quite the legacy to live up to. The younger Gregorian’s work in the political realm does distinguish him from his father, although the two will continue to be linked.

Maggie Haberman & The Trump Era

Haberman’s career began in 1996 when she was hired by the New York Post. In 1999, she was assigned to cover City Hall, starting her fascination with political reporting.

In the early 2000s, she spent time with the Daily News as a reporter covering City Hall.

Haberman returned to the Post to cover the 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign, discussing the campaign of Barack Obama and his competitors.

When Haberman became a political analyst for CNN in 2014, she did not expect that she would become of the Conservative Party’s most hated journalists in a few short years.

After being hired by The New York Times, Haberman decided to cover Trump, working with the already-crowded political team in early 2015.

As a new hire, she was focused on finding a niche to write about, and Trump had yet to become a prime assignment for her colleagues.

Her first Trump-related assignment covered the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. Trump had claimed he was open to forming a national registry of Muslims in the United States, telling Yahoo News: 

“We’re going to have to look at the mosques. We’re going to have to look very, very carefully.” 

Haberman covered the incident on the front page of the Times, sparking a years-long journalistic rivalry between herself and the former president.

Over the years, Trump regularly took to Twitter to complain about Haberman’s coverage of him and his administration.

At multiple points in time, he referred to her as a third-rate journalist and accused her of being loyal to Hillary Clinton as per her connection with CNN.

Interestingly, he never stated she should stop writing about him.

Haberman, unfortunately, was criticized by her colleagues at the Times, who often painted her political relationship with Trump in a perversely romantic light.

She was once referred to as Trump’s “snake charmer,” and the editor-in-chief of the New Yorker, David Remnick, said Trump was her “ardent, twisted suitor.”

“I didn’t care for the metaphor,” Haberman said. She was understandably frustrated that none of her male coworkers were being treated as she was by the press.

Still, her coverage of the former President was a benefit to both parties. The more she wrote about him, the more coverage he received, and the more he retaliated online, the likelier it became that her articles would be hits after hits. 

Like Gregorian, Haberman has repeatedly expressed frustration at being known just for writing about the former President. 

However, after being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2018, it seemed as though Haberman’s legacy was destined to be linked with Trump.