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.



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Latest from Jon Swaine

‘We’re a dead ship’: Hundreds of cargo ships lost propulsion in U.S. waters in recent years

A Post examination found that losses of engine power, part of what the Dali experienced when it crashed into the Key Bridge in Baltimore, are not uncommon.

April 16, 2024
A diver prepares to enter the water on April 4 at the site of the Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore.

Biden visit to bridge collapse announced as channel opens to Baltimore port

Officials announced President Biden will visit the bridge collapse site Friday. A channel has also opened for Baltimore port access.

April 1, 2024
Workers start to clear the channel of the twisted metal and concrete of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Crew aboard Dali all survived bridge crash ‘by God’s grace’

A director of a Baltimore ministry was in touch with those aboard the Dali after their ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

March 29, 2024
The cargo ship Dali sits in the water after running into and collapsing the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

Trump calls his globe-trotting ex-diplomat ‘my envoy.’ Neither is in office.

Richard Grenell has been acting as a kind of shadow secretary of state, meeting with far-right leaders and movements, and pledging Donald Trump’s support.

March 28, 2024
Richard Grenell, the former acting director of national intelligence under President Donald Trump, has met with a variety of far-right leaders around the world since leaving the White House.

Trump ally emerged from shadows to deal blow to Ga. case against former president

Mike Roman is in the spotlight after his legal team filed a bombshell brief alleging improprieties by Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis.

February 2, 2024
Mike Roman, seen in his booking photo Aug. 25 in Atlanta, is charged along with Donald Trump for allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.

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
Lorie Smith, a graphic artist and website designer in Colorado, center in pink, accompanied by lawyers from Alliance Defending Freedom, walks out of the Supreme Court after Smith's case to win the right to refuse to work on a same-sex wedding was heard in 2022. The court later ruled in Smith's favor.

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
A stack of the latest weekly edition of the Marion County Record sits in the back of the newspaper’s building in Marion, Kan., awaiting unbundling, sorting and distribution on Wednesday.