Jonathan Swan

I'm Jonathan Swan.

I'm a reporter at The New York Times.

You know, when people think about the media, your favorite podcast, you know, cable news panels and different things, I think it's fair to say that myself and my reporting colleagues at The New York Times exist at the more unglamorous end of that spectrum.

Our job is to dig out the facts that provide a foundation for these conversations.

These facts don't just come out of the ether.

It requires reporters to spend hours upon hours talking to sources, digging up documents.

Also, if the story is a story that a powerful person doesn't want in print, there's threats of lawsuits and all kinds of things.

So it's a really massive operation.

There aren't that many places anymore who invest at that level in journalism.

Without a well-funded and rigorous free press, people in power have much more leeway to do whatever the heck it is that they want to do.

If you think that it's worthwhile to have journalists on the job digging out information, you can subscribe to The New York Times because without you, none of us can do the work that we do.

I'm Jonathan Swan.

I'm a White House reporter for The New York Times.

Our job as reporters is to dig out information that powerful people don't want published, to take you into rooms that you would not otherwise have access to.

There's no robot that can go and talk to someone who was in the situation room and find out what was really said.

In order to get original information that's not public, we actually need journalists to do that.

I'm asking you to consider subscribing to The New York Times.

Independent journalism is important, and without you, we simply can't do it.

I'm Jonathan Swan.

I'm a White House reporter for The New York Times.