Christine Kay (December 16, 1964 – February 5, 2019) was an American journalist who served as an editor in the Investigations section of The New York Times.
At the Times, Kay conceived and edited the Portraits of Grief profile series on the victims of the September 11 attacks.
[2] About two dozen of the Portraits articles were cited when Times won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of the attacks.
She grew up in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, and while in high school won a scholarship to summer writing program at Allegheny College.
[2] Kay graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in journalism and political science.