Seamus Hughes

Seamus Hughes has a career that spans journalism, academia, and government. Hughes is a senior research faculty member at University of Nebraska Omaha’s National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE). In addition to his academic pursuits, he is the editor of Court Watch, an online news site that covers the federal court system that in the last four years has broken hundreds of national stories.

Hughes also works as a research journalist at the New York Times and Bloomberg Law News. In 2022, Hughes was part of a New York Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for stories on law enforcement in America. In 2026, he was a finalist for the Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Washingtonian Magazine has repeatedly named him one of the country’s most influential voices on national security.