# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-s-schmidt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:12:28.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-s-schmidt"
name: "Michael S. Schmidt"
slug: "michael-s-schmidt"
description: "Michael S. Schmidt is an American journalist, author, and correspondent for The New York Times in Washington, D.C. He covers national security and federal law enforcement, and has broken several high-profile stories about politics, media and sports. He is also a national security contributor for MSNBC and NBC News."
tagline: "American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pulitzer2018-mike-schmidt-20180530-wp.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1983-09-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.37
  momentum:             3.493733754800034
  historical:           2.784552
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  76
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/nytmike"
    handle:    "nytmike"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.nytimes.com/by/michael-s-schmidt"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A5%D8%B3._%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A)"
    title: "ميخائيل إس. شميت (صحفي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Schmidt"
    title: "Michael S. Schmidt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6834083"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations