Byron Tau is a veteran Washington, D.C.-based investigative and enterprise journalist who specializes in law, courts, national security. He's also interested in covering issues involving privacy, technology, digital security, government transparency, cybersecurity and surveillance. With over 15 years of experience in Washington, Byron has covered numerous beats across all three branches of the federal government.

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He started his career at Politico where he wrote about national politics, the White House, the 2012 presidential campaign, and led the publication's coverage of lobbying and campaign finance issues. In 2014, he joined the Wall Street Journal as a White House correspondent. He would go on to cover Congress, the Justice Department and the federal courts for the newspaper, with a focus on stories about accountability and government investigations. He was a part of the Journal's team providing in-depth coverage of the Hillary Clinton classified emails investigation, the congressional and special counsel probes into Russian interference in the 2016 election, congressional oversight of Donald Trump culminating in two impeachments, the sprawling array of January 6th cases and much more. He also helped launch NOTUS, a nonprofit newsroom in Washington D.C. 

 

He now works as an investigative reporter at the Associated Press and lectures in the undergraduate journalism program at Georgetown. His book, Means of Control, was published in Feb. 2024.