Katie Benner covers the Justice Department for The New York Times and she was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for public service for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues. While in The Times' San Francisco Bureau, she covered venture capital and startups, examining how tech employees are often short-changed by executives and investors as they chase the Silicon Valley dream. She also covered Apple, including the company's long running encryption fight with the FBI.

Katie also spent nearly a decade at Fortune, where she covered financial markets, private equity and hedge funds. Her work includes profiles of Hank Paulson, Robert Schiller and Reid Hoffman, as well as features on the 2008 financial crisis and financial fraud investigations.