Jonathan O’Connell

Jonathan O’Connell is a reporter at The Washington Post, where he works on business investigations. Since joining the Post in 2010, he has covered commercial real estate, economic development, federal stimulus efforts during the covid pandemic and President Donald Trump’s real estate business.

His work has won awards from the Society for Professional Journalists and the National Association of Real Estate Editors. He is a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Awards for business journalism. He is a 2001 graduate of UW–Madison where he majored in journalism and English. Previously he worked for business publications in Connecticut and in Virginia, and at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, in its Washington bureau. He lives in Washington, D.C.