I am currently covering the 2024 presidential election, with a particular focus on the candidacy of former President Trump, whom I have covered for more than eight years. My stories often delve into how candidates plan to use power if they win.
My first job in journalism was when I was 16, as a “copy boy” at the Sun-Herald — a newspaper in my hometown, Sydney, Australia. I worked at The Sydney Morning Herald, where I covered everything from local crime in Sydney to federal politics in the nation’s capital, Canberra. In 2014, shortly before I moved to the United States, I won an award for an investigative project that exposed politicians’ misuse of taxpayer money. Our stories led to new rules governing politicians’ entitlements and expenses.
I moved to the U.S. in 2014 for what was supposed to be one year, for a fellowship program with the American Political Science Association designed to deepen understanding of Congress. But I loved it here so much that I never went home.
Since 2015, I have covered politics, first at The Hill newspaper in Washington and then at Axios, where I focused on the Trump presidency and Republicans in Congress. During my six years at Axios I won an Emmy Award for my 2020 interview of then-President Trump. In 2022, the White House Correspondents’ Association gave me the Aldo Beckman Award for “overall excellence in White House coverage.”
I joined The Times in January 2023.
To my mother’s dismay, I am probably never moving back to Australia. I have an American wife and two (so far) American kids.
The Times has high ethical standards which all Times journalists abide by. But I didn’t need a guidebook to form my views about journalistic ethics. I believe in pursuing the truth, wherever it leads. I believe that holding powerful people to account should be the north star of every political reporter. And when I screw up — as every reporter does — I insist on acknowledging and correcting my mistakes, quickly and transparently.
You can read The Times’s ethics policy here.
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“I’m sure President Putin wants it to stop,” Donald Trump said of the Russia-Ukraine war on Friday. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine stressed that the war shouldn’t have been started.
By Jonathan Swan, Simon J. Levien, Constant Méheut and David E. Sanger
The MAGA Inc. super PAC plans to run ads to make the case that Kamala Harris is soft on crime and to tie her to the Biden administration’s record.
By Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher
Secret Service officials have advised altering routines and rethinking rally locations, after threats from Iran and two assassination attempts.
By Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan and Julian Barnes
Approximately three million undecided voters in seven battleground states will most likely decide the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, and surveys show that these voters are pessimistic about the country’s future. Jonathan Swan, a reporter covering the presidential campaign for The New York Times, examines how these voters are responding to Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump.
By Jonathan Swan, Claire Hogan, Laura Salaberry, David Seekamp and Whitney Shefte
The allegiances of this group of voters — roughly three million people in seven battleground states — are up for grabs, and polling shows they’re pessimistic about the country’s future.
By Jonathan Swan, Jennifer Medina, Ruth Igielnik and Maggie Haberman
CNN’s article scrambled G.O.P. plans for winning North Carolina. People close to Donald Trump are holding out hope Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson will decide to quit the governor’s race.
By Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher
Mr. Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, vowed to stay in the race and sought to deny the report, which also said he had defended slavery in online posts years ago.
By Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan and Nicholas Nehamas
The agency’s acting director, Ronald L. Rowe Jr., met with Donald J. Trump on Monday in the aftermath of the apparent assassination attempt on Sunday.
By Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Kate Kelly
Donald J. Trump’s travel schedule will not change in the aftermath of an apparent shooting attempt on Sunday, with trips this week planned to Michigan, New York and elsewhere.
By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Secret Service agents fired on a man with a rifle who had been hiding for hours in the wooded edge of a Trump golf club in Florida, officials said. Former President Donald J. Trump was unhurt.
By Isabelle Taft