[3] Swan started her career as a reporter and William F. Buckley Fellow at National Review.
[4] Amid a wider staff exodus from National Review in 2014, Swan moved after two years to the Washington Examiner to become a political writer covering Capitol Hill and electoral politics.
[5] Swan joined the news magazine Slate as a national political reporter in late 2014.
][7] She then became a national political reporter for The Daily Beast in March 2015, covering federal law enforcement.
[10][11] On March 4, 2020, Swan announced she would be leaving The Daily Beast and had been hired at Politico.