Hugo Lowell

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Hugo Lowell
Born
New York City, U.S.
NationalityBritish
American
OccupationJournalist
Employer Guardian US
Awards National Press Club Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism (2022)

Hugo Lowell is a White House correspondent for The Guardian in Washington, D.C. [1] He covers President Donald Trump and the US Department of Justice, and has broken several high-profile stories after an earlier career in corporate finance.

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He has broken major stories on the federal and congressional investigations into Trump, including about Trump's retention of classified documents and the House January 6 select committee. In 2022, he won the National Press Club's political journalism award for a series of stories about Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election at the January 6 joint session of Congress. [2]

Early life and education

Lowell was born in New York City. He was educated at the Dalton School, a private co-educational day school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and St. Paul's School, London. [3] He earned a BSc in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Bristol and spent time at a private equity firm in London before becoming a Washington-based reporter.

Career

Lowell was named a White House Correspondent for the Guardian in 2025 to cover Trump's second term. Before that, he had been the newspaper's lead reporter covering the federal and congressional investigations into Trump after he left office in 2020. Lowell joined its Washington bureau in 2021. [4] [5] He started his career reporting on the Russian doping scandal and the International Olympic Committee for the i newspaper while in high school.

MSNBC host Chris Hayes has described Lowell's reporting as "groundbreaking" and Mehdi Hasan has called him a "scoop machine". [6] [7] [8]

In November 2021, Lowell broke the story that Trump had called political operatives based at a “war room” in the Willard hotel and asked them about ways to obstruct the certification President Joe Biden's election win the night before the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. The Trump war room scoop led to the House January 6 committee to open a new line of inquiry, issue a subpoena to a senior Trump adviser and won the 2022 National Press Club's Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism. [9] [10]

In June 2023, during the criminal investigation into Trump's retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago property, Lowell reported on the contents of confidential notes dictated by Trump's lawyer Evan Corcoran that were subpoenaed and later used by the Special Counsel Jack Smith to indict Trump for obstruction of justice. [11] [12] [13] [14] In July 2023, the day before Trump was indicted in the documents case, Lowell also broke the news that Trump had been informed weeks beforehand that he had formally been designated a target in the criminal investigation, an indication from prosecutors that he was likely to be charged. [15] [16]

References

  1. ↑ "Hugo Lowell | The Guardian". The Guardian. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
  2. ↑ "The Guardian US' Congressional Reporter, Hugo Lowell, Wins at the National Press Club Journalism Awards". The Guardian. August 31, 2022. Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Hugo Lowell". Politicon. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
  4. ↑ ""Get Him Out of Here": Donald Trump Tossed NBC Reporter's Phones During Tirade Aboard Campaign Plane". Vanity Fair. May 1, 2023. Retrieved September 10, 2023.
  5. ↑ "The Guardian's Hugo Lowell explains how the Trump special master will affect the special counsel's probe". The Recount. November 23, 2022. Retrieved November 24, 2022.
  6. ↑ "What to Expect from the Historic 1/6 Hearings". MSNBC. Retrieved June 25, 2022.
  7. ↑ Feuer, Alan; Protess, Ben; Haberman, Maggie (June 3, 2023). "Trump Lawyer's Notes Could Be a Key in the Classified Documents Inquiry". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved February 15, 2024.
  8. ↑ Murray, Paula Reid,Kaitlan Collins,Katelyn Polantz,Kristen Holmes,Sara (May 22, 2023). "Trump's attorney took notes that say the former president wanted to fight subpoena for classified docs | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved February 15, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ Release, Press. "ProPublica, PBS/Frontline and National Public Radio win National Press Club awards". National Press Club. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
  10. ↑ "Hugo Lowell | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved September 11, 2022.
  11. ↑ "Trump was warned he could not keep classified documents: report". MSNBC.com. Retrieved July 5, 2023.
  12. ↑ Feuer, Alan; Protess, Ben; Haberman, Maggie (June 3, 2023). "Trump Lawyer's Notes Could Be a Key in the Classified Documents Inquiry". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved July 5, 2023.
  13. ↑ "Opinion | Trump's lawyer could be a godsend for Jack Smith's obstruction case". MSNBC.com. May 23, 2023. Retrieved July 5, 2023.
  14. ↑ Murray, Paula Reid,Kaitlan Collins,Katelyn Polantz,Kristen Holmes,Sara (May 22, 2023). "Trump's attorney took notes that say the former president wanted to fight subpoena for classified docs". CNN. Retrieved July 5, 2023.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ Trump targeted for DOJ indictment for first time, Report, June 7, 2023, retrieved July 5, 2023
  16. ↑ "Trump Gets Target Letter in Special Counsel Documents Probe". news.bloomberglaw.com. Retrieved July 5, 2023.
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