Hugo Lowell

Hugo Lowell is an award-winning Senior Political Correspondent at The Guardian, covering the intersection of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign and the US Department of Justice. He regularly appears on MSNBC as a political and legal affairs analyst.

Lowell has led coverage of federal and congressional investigations for The Guardian since 2021, leveraging his deep sourcing inside the Justice Department, Congress and the White House..

In particular, Lowell was The Guardian’s lead reporter covering Trump’s criminal trial in New York, Trump’s criminal investigations brought by the Special Counsel Jack Smith, and the House January 6 select committee investigation into the Capitol attack.

Lowell’s reporting has been recognized through appearances on NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, the PBS NewsHour and BBC News. He is a recipient of the National Press Club’s Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism and was a Paul Miller Fellow with the National Press Foundation.

He previously covered sports politics for the i newspaper in London, reporting from the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Moscow and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Before that, he worked on the distressed desk and special situations desk at Zetland Capital, a private equity firm based in London with £2bn under management.

Lowell is a graduate of the Dalton School in New York, St Paul’s School in London and Bristol University in the UK, where he studied economics and philosophy. A former competitive swimmer, he is a two-time finalist at the British National Championships. He is originally from New York.