Nicholas Fandos

Nicholas Fandos is an American journalist who covers the Metro desk for The New York Times.

Education
Fandos attended St. Louis University High School where he was editor-in-chief of the school’s weekly newspaper, the Prep News. He received a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard University in 2015.

Career
Fandos began his career as the managing editor of The Harvard Crimson, the university newspaper, and as an intern for Politico. After graduation in 2015, he was named a David Rosenbaum Reporting Intern at The New York Times for three months.

Fandos was offered a full-time position as a news assistant at The Times in 2015 before being promoted to cover Congress and the Trump presidency as a reporter in the Times' Washington, D.C. bureau in February 2017. He has made regular appearances on C-SPAN.

Fandos' report on The River of Blood is among his more notable stories.

NYU Media Studies professor Daniel Gilmore has noted and documented that Fandos has a history of reporting stories framed with a pro-Republican bias.