Jonathan Swan (born 7 August 1985)^[1] is an Australian journalist, who works as a U.S. political reporter for AXIOS Media.

Swan was born and raised in Australia.^[2] He is the son of physician, journalist and radio and television broadcaster Norman Swan,^[3] 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.^[4]

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.^[5][6] He joined The Hill in August 2015 as part of their campaign team.^[7]

Swan became a national political reporter for Axios in December 2016.^[8] While at Axios, Swan broke several stories about the Trump administration.^[2] 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.^[9]

Swan was the first to report that the U.S. would pull out of the Paris climate deal;^[2][10] that Steve Bannon was about to be fired;^[2][11] that Trump would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital;^[2] and that Trump would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive action policy.^[2] Swan broke the news that the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan was retiring from Congress.^[2]

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.^[12][13] In 2016, Politico named Swan as one of "16 Breakout Media Stars."^[14]

Swan is of Jewish faith. He became engaged to Daily Beast reporter Betsy Woodruff in March 2018.^[15] He intends to become a citizen of the United States upon his marriage.^[4]