Adam Nagourney, a national political reporter for the New York Times, is the author of “The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn and the Transformation of Journalism,” a history of the New York Times. He has been a reporter for over 45 years. Before joining the New York Times, he worked at USA Today, The New York Daily News, and the Gannett Westchester Newspapers. After joining the Times in 1996, he served as the paper’s metropolitan political correspondent, chief national political correspondent, Los Angeles bureau chief, and West Coast culture reporter, returning to cover national politics in 2023. He is also a co-author, with Dudley Clendinen, of “Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America,” a history of the gay rights movement published in 1999.
