{{short description|British-American journalist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Use American English|date =August 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Hugo Lowell | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1999|03|30}} | birth_place = [[New York City]], U.S. | title = [[White House Press Corps|White House Correspondent]] | occupation = Journalist | years_active = 2021–present | employer = [[Conde Nast]] | awards = [[National Press Club (United States)|National Press Club]] Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism (2022) | website = }}

'''Hugo Lowell''' (born March 30, 1999) is an American journalist who is a correspondent at WIRED magazine covering [[Donald Trump|President Donald Trump]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nast |first=Condé |title=Hugo Lowell |url=https://www.wired.com/author/hugo-lowell/ |access-date=2026-05-11 |website=WIRED |language=en-US}}</ref> He previously worked as a White House correspondent for ''[[Guardian US|The Guardian]]'' in Washington, D.C., where he broke several high-profile stories<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hugo Lowell {{!}} The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/hugo-lowell |access-date=2022-04-26 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=McDonald |first=Matt |date=2026-05-15 |title=SLAPP-happy: why Trumpworld keeps suing the press |url=https://spectator.com/article/slapp-happy-why-trumpworld-keeps-suing-the-press/?edition=us |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2026-05-19 |website=The Spectator |language=en-US}}</ref>

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 (United States)|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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-31 |title=The Guardian US' Congressional Reporter, Hugo Lowell, Wins at the National Press Club Journalism Awards |url=https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-office/2022/aug/31/the-guardian-us-congressional-reporter-hugo-lowell-wins-at-the-national-press-club-journalism-awards |access-date=2022-09-11 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref>

== 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hugo Lowell |url=https://www.politicon.com/speaker/hugo-lowell/ |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=Politicon}}</ref> 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 == From May 2021, Lowell worked as a congressional reporter for the Guardian, covering House Democrats and then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Later that year, he led the newspaper's coverage of the [[United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack|House January 6 committee]].

In November 2021, Lowell broke the story that Trump had called political operatives based at a “war room” in the [[Willard InterContinental Washington|Willard hotel]] and asked them about ways to obstruct the certification President [[Presidency of Joe Biden|Joe Biden's]] election win the night before the [[2021 United States Capitol attack|January 6 attack on the US Capitol]].

The Trump war room scoop led to the [[United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack|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 (United States)|National Press Club's]] [[Sandy Hume Memorial Award]] for Excellence in Political Journalism.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Release |first=Press |title=ProPublica, PBS/Frontline and National Public Radio win National Press Club awards |url=https://www.press.org/newsroom/propublica-pbsfrontline-and-national-public-radio-win-national-press-club-awards |access-date=2022-08-11 |website=National Press Club |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hugo Lowell {{!}} C-SPAN.org |url=https://www.c-span.org/person/?134801/HugoLowell |access-date=2022-09-11 |website=www.c-span.org}}</ref>

In June 2023, during the criminal investigation into [[Smith special counsel investigation|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 [[Jack Smith (lawyer)|Special Counsel Jack Smith]] to indict Trump for obstruction of justice.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Trump was warned he could not keep classified documents: report |url=https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/trump-was-warned-he-could-not-keep-classified-documents-report-175624261516 |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=MSNBC.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Feuer |first1=Alan |last2=Protess |first2=Ben |last3=Haberman |first3=Maggie |date=2023-06-03 |title=Trump Lawyer's Notes Could Be a Key in the Classified Documents Inquiry |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/us/politics/trump-lawyers-classified-documents-corcoran.html |access-date=2023-07-05 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-23 |title=Opinion {{!}} Trump's lawyer could be a godsend for Jack Smith's obstruction case |url=https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-lawyer-evan-corcoran-jack-smith-notes-rcna85606 |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=MSNBC.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Murray |first=Paula Reid, Kaitlan Collins, Katelyn Polantz, Kristen Holmes, Sara |date=2023-05-22 |title=Trump's attorney took notes that say the former president wanted to fight subpoena for classified docs |language=en |work=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/22/politics/trump-subpoena-classified-documents-mar-a-lago/index.html |access-date=2023-07-05}}</ref>

In July 2023, the day before Trump was indicted in the documents case, Lowell also broke the news that Trump had known for weeks that he was a “target” in the criminal investigation, an indication from prosecutors that he was likely to be charged.<ref>{{Citation |title=Trump targeted for DOJ indictment for first time, Report | date=June 7, 2023 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1FZHn2W4Ro |access-date=2023-07-05 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Trump Gets Target Letter in Special Counsel Documents Probe |url=https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/trump-reportedly-gets-target-letter-testimony-includes-meadows |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=news.bloomberglaw.com |language=en}}</ref>

Lowell was named a White House correspondent for the Guardian following Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential elections, assigned to cover the Trump administration's national security and legal policy.

In April 2026, Lowell joined Condé Nast and WIRED magazine as a senior political correspondent based in Washington D.C. He currently authors a weekly Trump White House newsletter for WIRED.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cartwright |first=Lachlan |title=🔎 Axel’s Telegraph U.S. Play; Ellison’s D.C. Party; Wired’s Guardian Poach |url=https://www.breakermedia.com/p/axel-s-telegraph-u-s-play-ellison-s-d-c-party-wired-s-guardian-poach |access-date=2026-05-11 |website=Breaker |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Harris |first=William |date=2026-04-16 |title=WIRED Hires Hugo Lowell as Senior Correspondent to Expand Trump and Washington Politics Coverage |url=https://www.citybiz.co/article/833110/wired-hires-hugo-lowell-as-senior-correspondent-to-expand-trump-and-washington-politics-coverage/ |access-date=2026-05-11 |website=citybiz |language=en-US}}</ref>

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== External links == * [https://twitter.com/hugolowell Hugo Lowell on Twitter] *[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12146140/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Hugo Lowell on IMDb] *[https://www.c-span.org/person/?134801/HugoLowell Hugo Lowell on C-SPAN]

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