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Katie Benner is an American reporter for The New York Times covering the Justice Department.

Early Life and Education
Benner grew up in Vermont, and was an English major at Bowdoin College in Maine. After graduating in 1999 with "zero idea" about a career plan, she moved to Beijing to teach English. While there she freelanced about everything from monks to music for the Beijing Review. After 9/11 she began collecting information how the attack affected American expatriates. A friend told her this would make an interesting news story. She pitched the idea to the Portland Press Herald in Maine, where she had earlier made relationships. She had worked in a deli during college and regularly made sandwiches for several of the newspaper's writers and editors. The newspaper accepted her stories, lauching her U.S. journalistic career.

Career
Her first job back in the U.S. was as a reporter with CNN Money. With no experience in finance she got the job after telling a skeptical job interviewer:"I am broke, and I will work extremely hard. I can learn. All journalism is is asking questions about things you don't know and finding answers." CNN Money was followed with a seven year run as a New York based Forbes reporter covering financial markets, hedge funds and private equity. She had three short stints: a staff writer for The Information, a technology industry publication; Bloomberg as a technology columnist reporting on Silicon Valley's "cult and culture" and writing a daily newsletter; and, "journalistic drudgery," writing synopses of Jim Cramer’s radio and television shows for The Street. She opined that, "yeah, it got a little repetitive." In 2015 The New York Times hired Benner to be a technology reporter and its new Apple beat reporter. In 2017 she joined their Washington bureau as a Justice Department reporter. Her article "Women in Tech Speak Frankly on the Culture of Harassment" was part of a New York Times collection that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Benner described a pervasive and ingrained predatory behavior toward women in Silicon Valley.

She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and Marketplace Radio.

Personal
Benner is married and lives in Washington, D.C. She has been described as "masterful at digging into troubled companies", incredibly thorough and quite witty. She uses multiple message apps, one of which tracks her husband's music habits. She feels that "low-key surveillance is good for relationships, right?"