Kate Conger | |
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 Conger in November 2024 | |
| Born | Kate Adelia Conger[1] April 1989 (age 36) |
| Occupations | |
| Employer | The New York Times |
| Website | Kate Conger - New York Times |
Kate Adelia Conger (born April 1989) is an American journalist and writer who works forThe New York Times. She has previously worked as a reporter atGizmodo andTechCrunch. She is the co-author of 2024'sCharacter Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter.[2]
Conger began her career writing for theSF Weekly and theSan Francisco Examiner.[3] From 2016 to 2017, Conger worked as a reporter forTechCrunch, covering tech policy and cybersecurity. From 2017 to 2018, she worked as a reporter forGizmodo. Conger was the first to report on the infamousGoogle Memo written by former employee James Damore, in which he disparagedGoogle for policies addressing gender equality. Damore would later sue Google, alleging discrimination against conservative white men in a suit that was ultimately dismissed in 2020.[4][5]
Conger joinedThe New York Times as a writer in July 2018.[3] Along with writers Daisuke Wakabayashi andKatie Benner, Conger was a 2019Gerald Loeb Award finalist inbeat reporting for their coverage ofAndy Rubin, a former Google executive who was paid $90 million in severance to expedite his leaving of the company after credible allegations of sexual harassment.[6][7]
In September 2024, Conger and co-authorRyan Mac releasedCharacter Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, which covers Musk's poorly executed$44-billion-dollar acquisition of Twitter.[8][9][10]