Dan Froomkin is the editor of Press Watch, an independent website previously known as White House Watch. He is a former senior writer and Washington editor for The Intercept. Prior to that, he was a writer and editor for The Huffington Post.

Froomkin was raised in Washington, D.C. His parents were Maya Pines Froomkin, an author and journalist, and Joseph Froomkin, an economist. In 1985, Froomkin graduated from Yale University. His brother is University of Miami law professor Michael Froomkin, a prominent blogger who writes on Florida politics and the law.

He has worked at newspapers such as The Winston-Salem Journal, The Miami Herald, and the Orange County Register. He was a Michigan Journalism Fellow and editor of new media for Education Week. In 1997, he joined washingtonpost.com, the relatively new online website of the Post, as a senior producer for politics. From 2001 to 2003, he was editor of washingtonpost.com. His column devoted to presidential accountability launched on January 12, 2004.

From 2004 to 2009, he wrote a highly successful column for the online version of The Washington Post entitled, White House Watch, and he was the senior Washington correspondent for The Huffington Post. On June 18, 2009, it was reported that his blog and employment at The Washington Post were terminated. In July, 2009, he was hired by The Huffington Post.

Froomkin subsequently worked as the Washington bureau chief for The Intercept, from September, 2014 until May, 2017. In September 2018, Froomkin revived White House Watch as an independent website.

In her editorial, "The Two Washington Posts", published on December 11, 2005, Washington Post Ombudsman Deborah Howell observes that the print newspaper The Washington Post and the website washingtonpost.com are two different entities; although "The Post Web site is owned by the Washington Post Co... it is not run by the newspaper. It is a separate company called Washington Post-Newsweek Interactive, or WPNI, with offices in Arlington." Whereas "The Post provides the vast majority of the Web site's content... the Web site has its own staff of 65 editorial employees and its own features... [Moreover,] [t]here are cultural differences between the two newsrooms, which could be expected between a traditional newspaper and the more free-wheeling Web site... The two Posts interact every day... [but] political reporters at The Post don't like WPNI columnist Dan Froomkin's "White House Briefing", which is highly opinionated and liberal. They're afraid that some readers think that Froomkin is a Post White House reporter."

Howell continued:

There was some support from readers for Froomkin in editorial correspondence about the matter.