Jonathan Swan

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Swan is of the Jewish faith. He married Daily Beast reporter Betsy Woodruff on 14 September 2019. He intends to become a citizen of the United States.

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 Trump feeds information, with instructions to attribute quotes to an unnamed White House official.

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

For his reporting in the US, 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. In 2016, Politico named Swan as one of "16 Breakout Media Stars."

Swan was born and raised in Australia. He is the son of physician, journalist and radio and television broadcaster Norman Swan, and his aunt and uncle are also Australian journalists. In Australia, he did not enter the field of journalism until he was 25. He then moved to the United States in 2013 for an academic fellowship and worked as a Congressional aide.

Jonathan Swan (born 7 August 1985) is an Australian journalist, who works as a U.S. political reporter for Axios.