Kate Kelly (journalist)
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Kate Kelly (born February 24, 1975) is an American reporter for The New York Times.
Biography
Kelly was raised in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of the National Cathedral School{{Cite news|first=Luke |last=Millins |title=Interview: The Coauthor of 'The Education of Brett Kavanaugh' Explains How She Dug Into DC's Private-School Scene |newspaper=Washingtonian|date=September 17, 2019 |url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/09/17/kate-kelly-coauthor-education-brett-kavanaugh-dc-private-school-scene/ }} after which she attended Columbia University where she received a B.A. in history in 1997.{{Cite news|title=A new prime time colleague: Kate Kelly of CNBC joins Business Day |newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 2, 2016 |url=https://www.nytco.com/press/a-new-prime-time-colleague-kate-kelly-of-cnbc-joins-business-day/ }}{{Cite web|title=Columbia Daily Spectator 14 October 1998 — Columbia Spectator|url=http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs19981014-01.1.14&|access-date=2021-07-07|website=spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu}} After school, she worked for Time magazine and the New York Observer where she wrote a weekly residential real-estate column, "Manhattan Transfers." she then worked for The Wall Street Journal for ten years as an investigative journalist and then in 2010 she was hired by CNBC as an on-air reporter. In 2016, she was hired by The New York Times as their business reporter.
Kelly is also the author, with Robin Pogrebin, of The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation with a publishing date in September 2019 from Portfolio Books, a division of Penguin Random House. Before publication, the Times published a widely criticisedCalderon, Michael, [https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/16/new-york-times-brett-kavanaugh-book-1498153 "Times' handling of Kavanaugh story draws widespread criticism"]. Politico Retrieved 2019-09-17. essay adapted from the book that primarily addressed accusations about an incident with Deborah Ramirez and another incident alleged by Max Stier, both of which occurred at Yale.Pogrebin, Robin, and Kate Kelly, [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/sunday-review/brett-kavanaugh-deborah-ramirez-yale.html "Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not."], New York Times, September 14, 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-16. Before Kavanaugh's confirmation in October, 2018, Pogrebin, also at the Times and a classmate of Kavanaugh at Yale, and Kelly, were featured in a podcast about what the then-judge's classmates were saying concerning his nomination to the Supreme Court.Barbaro, Michael (host), [https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/podcasts/the-daily/brett-kavanaugh-fbi-classmates.html "Kavanaugh's classmates speak out" (27:03 min. audio)], New York Times, October 2, 2018. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
Personal life
Awards
- 2004 Gerald Loeb Award for Deadline Writing
- 2008 Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Writing
- 2009 Livingston Award for Excellence in National Reporting
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Category:The New York Times journalists
Category:20th-century American journalists
Category:20th-century American women journalists
Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni
Category:The Wall Street Journal people
Category:The New York Observer people
Category:Time (magazine) people
Category:21st-century American journalists
Category:21st-century American women journalists
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:Journalists from Washington, D.C.
Category:Gerald Loeb Award winners for Deadline and Beat Reporting