Announcement from National Editor Phil Rucker, Deputy National Editor Amy Fiscus and Deputy National Security Editor Debbi Wilgoren:
We are delighted to announce that Justin Jouvenal, a tenacious and resourceful reporter with a history of scoops and accountability stories, is joining the National staff as a Supreme Court reporter.
Justin will team up with Ann Marimow on one of the most consequential beats in Washington. Together they will scrutinize the justices and reveal and explain the influences on their work at this crucial juncture in the court’s history, while also setting the agenda in covering the news of the court itself and the decisions that shape policy across the country. Justin has a record of compelling enterprise, creative sourcing and fast, nuanced and authoritative writing, all of which served him well in his most recent role anchoring major breaking news and producing deeply reported stories for Metro. He broke the story of a high-ranking Virginia official working on elections who praised Jan. 6 rioters and claimed the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, leading to her removal. He has also had several scoops reporting on the shooting of a teacher by a six-year-old in Newport News; he and education reporter Hannah Natanson uncovered missed warnings and lapses that led to the shooting.
The past few weeks alone demonstrate Justin’s versatility and impact: He anchored The Post’s breaking-news coverage of the Baltimore bridge collapse, secured a scoop on charges against a school administrator in the Newport News shooting and wrote that a judge overturned the murder convictions of three men after Justin had reported on fresh DNA tests that cast doubt on their guilt.
After covering politics for Salon and for newspapers in California, Justin came to The Post in 2009 as a web producer for Metro. He later served as a breaking news reporter and spent more than a decade covering policing and courts locally and nationally. He was part of the Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2022 for its coverage of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. He is known as a warm, unflappable and collegial team player, qualities that will serve him well in his new high-pressure beat.
Justin descends from a line of sculptors who carved some of Washington’s most recognizable works, including the capstone of the Washington Monument, the bust of Aaron Burr in the Capitol and the statue of Benjamin Franklin outside the Old Post Office Tower. The artistic talent skipped him, so Justin became a writer, which worked out well for us.
