Kate Conger is an American journalist and writer who works for The New York Times. She has previously worked as a reporter at Gizmodo and TechCrunch. She is the co-author of 2024's Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter.[1]
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Career
editConger began her career writing for the SF Weekly and the San Francisco Examiner.[2] From 2016 to 2017, Conger worked as a reporter for TechCrunch, covering tech policy and cybersecurity. From 2017 to 2018, she worked as a reporter for Gizmodo. Conger was the first to report on the infamous Google Memo, written by former employee James Damore in which he disparaged Google 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.[3][4]
Conger joined The New York Times as a writer in July 2018.[2] Along with writers Daisuke Wakabayashi and Katie Benner, Conger was a 2019 Gerald Loeb Award finalist in beat reporting for their coverage of Andy Rubin, a former Google executive that was paid $90 million in severance to expedite his leaving of the company after credible allegations of sexual harassment.[5][6]
In September 2024, Conger and co-author Ryan Mac released Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter, which covers Musk's poorly executed $44-billion-dollar acquisition of Twitter.[7][8][9]
References
edit- ^ Ruskin, Zack (September 20, 2024). "The inside story of Elon Musk's Twitter takeover". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ a b "Kate Conger Joins The New York Times". The New York Times. July 25, 2018. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
- ^ Conger, Kate (August 5, 2017). "Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google [Updated]". Gizmodo. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
- ^ Brown, Dalvin (May 10, 2020). "Ex-Google engineer who alleged discrimination against conservative white men asks judge to dismiss lawsuit". USA Today. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
- ^ Pollock, Ellen; Carter, Adrienne (July 1, 2019). "The Times received on Thursday three Gerald Loeb Awards for outstanding business reporting in features, investigative and personal finance". The New York Times. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ Wakabayashi, Daisuke; Benner, Kate (October 25, 2018). "How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the 'Father of Android'". The New York Times. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ Anthony, Andrew (September 29, 2024). "Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter review – the ego has landed, just not on Mars". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved October 8, 2024.
- ^ "The inside story of Elon Musk's Twitter takeover". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 22, 2024.
- ^ Miller, Stuart (September 13, 2024). "'How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter' authors say platform is 'a tool for controlling political discourse'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 8, 2024.