Jonathan Swan

Jonathan Swan (born 7 August 1985) 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. Early life Swan was born and raised in Australia. He is Jewish. Swan is the son of physician, journalist and broadcaster Norman Swan; his aunt and uncle are also Australian journalists. He graduated from Sydney Grammar School in Sydney. 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. 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. He joined The Hill in August 2015 as part of their campaign team. Swan became a national political reporter for Axios in December 2016. While at Axios, Swan broke several stories about the Trump administration. 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.