Katie Benner covers the Justice Department for The New York Times. She moved to Washington D.C. in 2018 to cover the agency under former president Donald J. Trump, and many of her stories focused on Mr. Trump’s clashes with law enforcement and national security officials as he tested the limits of presidential power.
She has since reported on the Justice Department’s role in the transition of power between the Trump and Biden administrations, including Mr. Trump’s attempts to pressure officials to support false claims of election fraud and the department’s ongoing investigation into the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. She has also written about Attorney General Merrick B. Garland’s approach to restoring independence and credibility to the agency.
While a technology reporter in San Francisco, she wrote about the encryption fight between Apple and the FBI, how tech employees chasing the Silicon Valley dream are short-changed by executives and investors and the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and discrimination in the tech industry. She was part of the New York Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for its coverage of workplace sexual harassment. She also worked at Fortune for nearly a decade, writing about the world’s largest private equity firms and hedge funds. She covered the Wall Street credit boom, the 2008 financial crisis and the impact of the credit collapse on investors, regulators and the credit ratings agencies.
Katie is a graduate of Bowdoin College.
