Katie Benner
Katie Benner is an American journalist for The New York Times, where she covers the U.S. Department of Justice. She grew up in Vermont and studied English at Bowdoin College in Maine, graduating in 1999. After college, she moved to Beijing to teach English and began freelancing for the Beijing Review. After the September 11 attacks, she started tracking how the events affected American expatriates and pitched a story to the Portland Press Herald, which launched her U.S. journalism career.
Her first U.S. job was with CNN Money. She then spent seven years at Fortune in New York, reporting on financial markets, hedge funds, and private equity. She had brief stints at The Information and Bloomberg, where she wrote about Silicon Valley culture, followed by work at TheStreet, where she summarized Jim Cramer’s radio and TV shows.
In 2015, The New York Times hired Benner as a technology reporter and Apple beat reporter. In 2017, she joined the Times’ Washington bureau to cover the Justice Department. Her article on “Women in Tech Speak Frankly on the Culture of Harassment” was part of a Times collection that helped win the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Benner was among reporters who broke the story about the Justice Department’s investigation involving Matt Gaetz. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and Marketplace. Colleagues describe her as thorough, witty, and skilled at digging into tough stories, and she often works quickly using multiple messaging apps on her iPhone. She lives in Washington, D.C., is married, serves as a Bowdoin College trustee, and enjoys knitting.
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