Jonathan Swan was born on 7 August 1985 and is an Australian journalist who works as a political reporter for The New York Times.
14 Facts About Jonathan Swan
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Jonathan Swan won an Emmy Award in 2021 for his interview with then-US president Donald Trump.
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Jonathan Swan 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 US.
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Jonathan Swan began his career as a national political reporter based in Canberra, Australia's capital city, for Fairfax Media and as a political correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald.
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Jonathan Swan joined The Hill in August 2015 as part of their campaign team.
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Jonathan Swan became a national political reporter for Axios in December 2016.
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Former Washington Post journalist Ronald Kessler claimed in his 2018 book The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game that Jonathan 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.
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Jonathan Swan was the first to report that the US would pull out of the Paris climate deal; that Steve Bannon was about to be fired; that Trump would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital; and that Trump would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive action policy.
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Jonathan Swan broke the news that the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was retiring from Congress.
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In September 2018, Jonathan Swan reported on Axios that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had resigned.
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In November 2022, The New York Times announced Jonathan Swan would start working there from January 2023 covering the US Congress, focusing on the Republican Party.
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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.
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Jonathan Swan married American reporter Betsy Woodruff of Politico on September 14,2019.
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Jonathan Swan had stated that he intends to become an American citizen.