👤 Jonathan Swan

2 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
2
2026-09-05 – 2026-09-19
Claims per article
42
84 extracted in total
Hedged claims
18%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
7,611
characters
Writes for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Crime & Law
50%
Politics
50%
Most-tagged topics
AmericanChinaChineseIranJoint StaffMetaNvidiaPentagon

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
1 scored article; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.27 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-09-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics
Trump’s love of AI is more complicated than it looks
17 outlets covered this event · leans right
2026-09-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Crime & Law
‘Treasonous’: Pentagon forces staff to take polygraphs in hunt for leaks to journalists
8 outlets covered this event

What they said would happen

2026-09-05 · The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Treasonous’: Pentagon forces staff to take polygraphs in hunt for leaks to journalists
🔮 The show of force appeared aimed at not just ferreting out anyone who may have shared information, but intimidating others who might do so in the future, according to people with knowledge of the effort. assertive
2026-09-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald
Trump’s love of AI is more complicated than it looks
🔮 President Donald Trump made clear in the past week that he views fears that artificial intelligence could lead to mass extinction as a “HOAX”, and that he sees opponents of data centres as people who “want to end up being backwards and poor”. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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