Adam Nagourney (born October 10, 1954) is an American journalist who covers national politics for The New York Times. Nagourney is the author of “The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism,” a history of the newspaper published in 2023.
After joining The New York Times in 1996, Nagourney was assigned to cover the presidential campaign of Bob Dole. After the 1996 election, he became the paper's metropolitan political correspondent in New York. He was appointed chief political correspondent in 2002 and covered the 2004 re-election of President George W. Bush and the 2008 election of Barack Obama. He became the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief in the summer of 2010.[1] In April 2020, he joined the politics desk, helping to cover the 2020 presidential campaign for the Times. In April 2021, Nagourney was named the West Coast cultural correspondent. He returned to covering national politics in 2023.
On June 16, 2015, Nagourney was one of three reporters on an article published in The New York Times titled "Deaths of Irish Students in Berkeley Balcony Collapse Cast Pall on Program". The article described students in the J-1 visa program as "a source of embarrassment for Ireland".[2] Nagourney said, "Do I think that the program – as well as the problems associated with it – are fair game for a news story? Yes. But there was a more sensitive way to tell the story. I absolutely was not looking to in any way appear to be blaming the victims, or causing pain in this awful time for their families and friends. I feel very distressed at having added to their anguish."[3]
Nagourney described growing up in a family of "passionate Times readers". His father, Herbert Nagourney, was a publisher who was a VP at Macmillan before becoming president of the New York Times Book Company. His stepmother, Ann Bramson, was the publisher of Artisan, a Workman imprint. His brother, Eric Nagourney, is also a journalist at The New York Times.[4][5][6]
^Nagourney, Adam (2023). The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism (First ed.). New York: Crown. ISBN978-0-451-49938-7.
