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Jonathan Swan (born August 7, 1985) is an Australian journalist, currently serving as a national political reporter for Axios, the media company launched by Politico founders Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei. Swan covers the Trump presidency and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill.

Early Life
Swan was born and raised in Australia. He is the son of journalist and radio and television broadcaster Norman Swan.

Career
Swan became a national political reporter based in Canberra for Fairfax Media and political correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald. In 2014, Swan became the youngest panelist on Australian Broadcasting Corporation Sunday political show, Insiders (TV program).

He was the Australian selected in 2014 for the American Political Science Association (APSA) Congressional Fellowship. It involved moving to the United States for a yearlong political fellowship, during which he served on a congressional staff before returning to political journalism in 2015. Swan joined The Hill in August 2015 as part of their campaign team.

Axios
Swan became a national political reporter for Axios in December 2016. He is also the editor of the Axios Sneak Peak newsletter. While at Axios, Swan became known for breaking stories about the Trump administration. A former Washington Post journalist Ronald Kessler claimed in his 2018 book "The Trump White House" that Swan is among a handful of reporters to whom Trump feeds information, with instructions to attribute quotes an unnamed White House official.

Swan was the first to report that the U.S. would pull out of the Paris climate deal; that Trump would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital; and that Trump would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive action policy. On April 11, 2018, Swan broke the news that the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was retiring from Congress. On October 9, 2018, he was the first to report that Trump had accepted the resignation of Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley.

On September 24, 2018, he was the first to report that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had verbally resigned. The story was later updated to clarify that is was uncertain if the White House had accepted the resignation, though Swan also published the Rosenstein exit statement that the Justice Department sent to the White House. Swan later said he had given the resignation story unwarranted certainty.

He broke the news that Steve Bannon was about to be fired, and he was the first to report that Anthony Scaramucci would step in as communications director.

In November 2018, Swan interviewed President Trump, who discussed wanting to end U.S. birthright citizenship though an executive order. Some journalists criticized Swan’s tone during the interview with President Trump, which aired on HBO, as being overly deferential. A writer for the New York Times noted that Swan's journalistic style suggested that he favored access to people in power over holding them accountable. Bob Woodward of the Washington Post defended what he saw as the style's standard evidenced by the interview, noting that "walking that line of being tough but fair while also listening to the people you’re covering is a delicate one."

Swan has appeared on Morning Joe, Special Report with Bret Baier, Hardball with Chris Matthews, and PBS NewsHour.

Awards and Honors
As a member of the Sydney Morning Herald's reporting team in the Canberra Press Gallery, Swan was presented with the Wallace Brown Award in 2014 for most outstanding young journalist.