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Jonathan Swan
Swan in 2018
Born (1985-08-07) 7 August 1985 (age 38)
Sydney, Australia
Alma materSydney Grammar School
OccupationJournalist
EmployerThe New York Times
Spouse
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(m. 2019)​
Children1
Parents

Jonathan Swan (born 7 August 1985)[1] is an Australian journalist who works as a political reporter for The New York Times. He won an Emmy Award for his 2020 interview with then-US president Donald Trump.[2]

Early life

Swan was born and raised in Australia.[3] He is Jewish.[4][5][6] Swan is the son of physician, journalist and broadcaster Norman Swan;[7] his aunt and uncle are also Australian journalists.[3] He graduated from Sydney Grammar School in Sydney.[8] In Australia, he entered the field of journalism in 2010. He later moved to the United States, and in 2014 held a yearlong fellowship with the American Political Science Association before returning to journalism in 2015 and remaining in the U.S.[9]

Career

Swan began his career as a national political reporter based in Canberra for Fairfax Media and as a political correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald.[10][11] He joined The Hill in August 2015 as part of their campaign team.[12]

Swan became a national political reporter for Axios in December 2016.[13] While at Axios, Swan broke several stories about the Trump administration.[3][14] Former Washington Post journalist Ronald Kessler claimed in his 2018 book The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game that Swan is among a handful of reporters to whom President Donald Trump feeds information, with instructions to attribute quotes to an unnamed White House official.[15]

Swan was the first to report that the U.S. would pull out of the Paris climate deal;[3][16] that Steve Bannon was about to be fired;[3][17] that Trump would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital;[3] and that Trump would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive action policy.[3] Swan broke the news that the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was retiring from Congress.[3]

In September 2018, Swan reported on Axios that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had resigned. Rosenstein remained in his post, and it later emerged that he had offered a letter of resignation that was not accepted. Axios clarified the article, and Swan wrote on Twitter that he "screwed up by giving it a certainty it didn’t warrant”.[14]

In August 2020, Swan was praised by people on social media for the manner in which he had conducted an interview with President Trump. During the interview, Swan pointedly questioned and fact-checked numerous false, misleading, or bizarre statements as the President spoke them.[18] The New York Times media columnist Ben Smith wrote that Swan's was "perhaps the best interview of Mr. Trump’s term".[19]

In November 2022, The New York Times announced Swan would work there beginning January 2023 to cover the U.S. Congress, focusing on the Republican Party.[20][21]

Controversy

In March and April 2019, HuffPost and Wired reported that Axios had paid a firm to improve its reputation by lobbying for changes to the Wikipedia articles on Axios and Swan.[22][23]

Recognition

As a member of the Sydney Morning Herald in the Canberra Press Gallery, Swan was presented with the Wallace Brown Award in 2014 for most outstanding young journalist.[24][25] In 2016, Politico named Swan one of "16 Breakout Media Stars."[26] In 2020, The Jerusalem Post named Swan in its list of the world's 50 most influential Jews.[27] In 2021, Axios was awarded an Emmy Award in the Best Edited Interview category for "President Donald J. Trump - An Interview" by Jonathan Swan, who accepted the award.[28] The White House Correspondents' Association presented Swan the 2022 Aldo Beckman award for "overall excellence in White House coverage."[29]

Personal life

He married American reporter Betsy Woodruff of Politico on 14 September 2019. They have one child.[30] He has stated that he intends to become an American citizen.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Monday's birthdays". Politico. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Emmy Awards". Retrieved 28 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i Farhi, Paul (4 November 2018). "A fast-rising journalist hits a speed bump with his latest scoop about Trump". The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  4. ^ Kassel, Matthew (25 November 2020). "Jonathan Swan prepares to migrate to the Biden beat". Jewish Insider. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
  5. ^ Brinn, David (20 September 2020). "Jewish journalists make a difference in the world". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 12 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Grisar, PJ (4 August 2020). "Jonathan Swan is the meme hero we need right now". The Forward. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  7. ^ "Aussie named as a US political breakout star". Crikey. 7 November 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  8. ^ "2003 Higher School Certificate". boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au. Retrieved 25 September 2020.
  9. ^ "Jonathan Swan". ussc.edu.au. Retrieved 10 November 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Jonathan Swan". Traveller. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  11. ^ Coyne, Brendan (17 July 2013). "Labor's Nakedgate: Here's the agency brief which got it sacked". AdNews. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  12. ^ Mullin, Benjamin (18 August 2015). "Career Beat: Jonathan Swan joins The Hill's campaign team". Poynter Institute. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  13. ^ "The Hill's Jonathan Swan Heads to VandeHei Startup Axios". Adweek. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  14. ^ a b Grynbaum, Michael M. (4 November 2018). "Another Trump Scoop, a Giddy Reaction and a Reporter Under Fire". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
  15. ^ Price, Greg (4 April 2018). "Trump is a Leaker to Media as Anonymous Source for Good Coverage, New Book Claims". Newsweek. Retrieved 15 December 2018.
  16. ^ Swan, Jonathan (31 May 2017). "Trump is pulling U.S. out of Paris climate deal". Axios. Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  17. ^ Nguyen, Tina (18 August 2017). "Steve Bannon Is Leaving the White House". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  18. ^ Roach, April (4 August 2020). "Journalist Jonathan Swan praised as 'hero' after cornering Donald Trump in car crash interview". Evening Standard. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  19. ^ Smith, Ben (6 September 2020). "Journalists Aren't the Enemy of the People. But We're Not Your Friends". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
  20. ^ Bumiller, Elisabeth; Halbfinger, David (11 November 2022). "Jonathan Swan Joins The New York Times". The New York Times (Press release). Archived from the original on 11 November 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  21. ^ Swan, Jonathan [@jonathanvswan] (11 November 2022). "Axios has been family to me for the past six years. It's been the best place I have ever worked and have bottomless gratitude to Mike, Jim and Roy for giving me so many opportunities. It's bittersweet for sure- but thrilled to join the NYT next year, a paper I've admired forever" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 11 November 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2022 – via Twitter.
  22. ^ Feinberg, Ashley (14 March 2019). "Facebook, Axios And NBC Paid This Guy To Whitewash Wikipedia Pages". HuffPost. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  23. ^ Cohen, Noam (7 April 2019). "Want to Know How to Build a Better Democracy? Ask Wikipedia". Wired. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
  24. ^ "Jonathan Swan, APSA Congressional Fellowship 2014". American Australian Association Limited. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  25. ^ "Fairfax journalist Jonathan Swan awarded prestigious Wallace Brown Young Achiever Award". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 May 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  26. ^ Gold, Hadas (6 November 2016). "16 breakout media stars of 2016". Politico. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  27. ^ Brinn, David. "JPOST 50 INFLUENTIAL JEWS". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  28. ^ "ABC's 'The Shot: Race to the Vaccine,' CNN's 'The Death of George Floyd' Among News Emmy Winners". 29 September 2021.
  29. ^ "WHCA ANNOUNCES 2022 JOURNALISM AWARDS". WHCA. 6 April 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  30. ^ Betsy Woodruff Swan [@woodruffbets] (9 September 2020). "A big hello to everyone from our brand new baby, Esther Jane Swan" (Tweet). Retrieved 5 November 2020 – via Twitter.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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