2025 Participant · Non-Fiction · Journalism

Josh Dawsey
Josh Dawsey

Josh is a political investigations and enterprise reporter for The Wall Street Journal.

He most recently worked as a political enterprise and investigations reporter for The Washington Post. He joined the Post in 2017 and previously covered the White House. Josh was part of a team of journalists who won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2022 for the newspaper's coverage of Jan. 6 and won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the newspaper's coverage of the role of the AR-15 in American life. He also is a two-time recipient of the White House Correspondents Association award for news reporting. He is also a lecturer at the Allbritton Journalism Institute.

Josh is a proud graduate of the University of South Carolina and the enthusiastic owner of a rambunctious rescue dog named Pepper.

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Book Title(s)

  • 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America

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