About Jose Antonio Vargas

VARGAS, JOSE ANTONIO is a national political reporter and style reporter for The Washington Post, where he writes specifically about the marriage of Internet and politics. At The Post, where he came in 2004, he's covered a diverse set of topics, including video game culture and HIV/AIDS in Washington, D.C. Vargas is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area; he graduated from Mountain View High School in 2000 and San Francisco State University in 2004. He worked at the San Francisco Chronicle during college, first as a copy aide then as a city desk reporter, and got his start at the Mountain View Voice, a local community paper, while he was in high school. He enjoys jazz, reading, independent and foreign films (Kurosawa, Almodovar), among others.

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