Keach Hagey is an American journalist and non-fiction writer.^[1]

Hagey grew up inEvansville, Indiana.^[2] She has a bachelor's and a master's in English literature fromStanford University.^[1][3]

Hagey is a media reporter atThe Wall Street Journal where she covers the intersection and interplay between tech companies likeFacebook andGoogle on one side and the media on the other.^[1] She has also coveredOpenAI^[4] as well as21st Century Fox,Time Warner, andViacom for theJournal.^[1]

Hagey was part of a team at theJournal that won theGeorge Polk Award and theGerald Loeb Award.^[1]

At theJournal, Hagey covered media owners and executives includingSumner Redstone,Shari Redstone,^[5]Rupert Murdoch,^[6]Arianna Huffington,Katie Couric,^[7]Jeff Zucker,Jeff Bewkes,^[8]Shane Smith^[9] andNancy Dubuc.^[10][3]

Prior to theJournal, she worked atPolitico,^[11]CBS News,^[12] andThe Village Voice.^[1][13] She interned forWayne Barrett atThe Village Voice.^[14]

Hagey was interviewed byNPR's Audie Cornish aboutLes Moonves, the former chairman and CEO ofCBS Corporation.^[15]

She started her career with theQueens Chronicle.^[16]

Hagey is the author of a 2018 book aboutSumner Redstone titledThe King of Content: Sumner Redstone's Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire.^[17][18] Hagey discussed the book in interviews withBrian Lamb ofC-SPAN^[14] and with Peter Kafka on theRecode Media podcast.^[19]

In 2025, Hagey published a biography ofSam Altman titledThe Optimist Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future.^[20]James Ball reviewed the book forThe Guardian.^[21]Tim Wu reviewed the book inThe New York Times.^[22] Hagey spoke withVanity Fair's then editor in chiefRadhika Jones, then executive editor Claire Howorth, and then editor Michael Calderone about Altman's views, ambitions, and career.^[23]

Hagey is married to Wesley Harris.^[16] She met Harris while interning atThe Village Voice.^[14] They have three children and live inIrvington, New York.^[1][24][25]

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