Luke Broadwater is a congressional reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times.
At the New York Times, Luke has profiled congressional leaders, investigated federal spending, and played a key role in the paper's coverage of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, for which The Times was named finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. He documented the trauma faced by Capitol Police in a cover story for The New York Times Magazine, and led the paper's coverage of the House committee's wide-ranging investigation into the attack.
Prior to joining The Times, Luke worked for nearly a decade at The Baltimore Sun, where he covered the Maryland State House and Baltimore City Hall. He broke a story last year about a self-dealing scandal at the state's largest hospital system that resulted in the resignation of Baltimore's mayor and top hospital officials and the passage of sweeping reform legislation. That series of investigative articles won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting and a George Polk Award for political reporting.
Some of Luke's other stories at The Sun led to the passage of a state constitutional amendment redirecting billions in casino revenue back to the state's public schools and (with former colleague Scott Calvert) the deactivation of hundreds of speed cameras that were giving drivers inaccurate tickets. He was part of a team named Pulitzer finalists in 2016 for coverage of the unrest following the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. He also won the Education Writers Association Award for investigative reporting in 2015 (with colleague Erica L. Green and the WSJ's Scott Calvert) for reporting on conditions teachers face in Baltimore schools.
Luke graduated with a degree in writing and a minor in history from Ithaca College, where he was on the wrestling team. He was then a collegiate wrestling coach for eight years.
Luke met his wife, Jennifer, at their first newspaper job, and they now have two wonderful children.
He is the oldest of four brothers. His father, Daniel, is a Presbyterian minister and mother, Katherine, is an art professor. He is of half Arab (Lebanese/Syrian) and half European (German/British) descent.
