Jon Swaine

New York

Investigative reporter

Education: University of Cambridge, BA; City University of London, PG Dip

Jon Swaine joined The Washington Post's investigative team in 2019. He previously worked as a senior reporter for the Guardian, and as a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. Swaine contributed to The Post's coverage of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2022. During 2015-16, he was the lead reporter for The Guardian's coverage of killings by police, which won several prizes and was a finalist for an Emmy and a Peabody Award.



Latest from Jon Swaine

Watch ‘Failure at the Fence’

“Frontline” and The Washington Post partnered on a detailed examination of how Hamas breached Israel’s vaunted “Iron Wall” on Oct. 7 to carry out its attack.

December 19, 2023

How Hamas exploited Israel’s reliance on tech to breach barrier on Oct. 7

This Post video shows how Hamas fighters neutralized long-range cameras, sophisticated sensors and remote-control weapons.

November 17, 2023

Trump’s Georgia co-defendants, their charges and mug shots

All defendants have until noon on Friday to surrender for processing, which includes fingerprinting and a mug shot.

October 24, 2023

Inside the tactics that won Christian vendors the right to reject gay weddings

Opponents accuse Alliance Defending Freedom, the conservative law firm behind a landmark Supreme Court case, of manufacturing lawsuits to advance its agenda during a decade-long battle against laws barring discrimination based on sexual orientation.

September 28, 2023

Confidential affidavits detail reasoning for police raid of Kansas newspaper

The search of the Marion Record’s offices had its origins in a dispute between a restaurant owner and her estranged husband, records and interviews show.

August 19, 2023

Clues point to identities of ‘unindicted co-conspirators’ in alleged Coffee County breach

In an attempt to learn the identities of those tied to the copying of elections data in rural Georgia, The Post compared the descriptions of events in the indictment against Trump that was unsealed Monday with other records related to the alleged breach.

August 16, 2023

Prince Harry, Meghan say they were chased by NYC paparazzi. Cab driver describes incident.

Prince Harry and Meghan were involved in a “near catastrophic car chase at the hands of a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi,” the couple's spokeswoman said.

May 17, 2023

Mike Lindell’s firm told to pay $5 million in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ election-fraud challenge

The MyPillow founder and election denier offered the money to anyone who could disprove his claim about data he said showed China manipulated the 2020 U.S. election.

April 20, 2023

Advocates seek federal investigation of multistate effort to copy voting software

Evidence of the effort by Trump supporters surfaced in a long-running lawsuit over the security of Georgia’s voting system.

December 13, 2022

As Arizona counts votes, Republicans seize on Election Day glitches

Election officials, who long expected the vote count to take as many as 12 days, say ballot printer issues are not slowing results.

November 10, 2022