Emily Steel is an American business journalist who has contributed to several news publications and has covered the media industry at The New York Times since 2014.

[1] Steel published an investigative report on Fox News Host Bill O'Reilly that may have contributed to his firing.

In 2018, her writing received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service along with Michael S. Schmidt, Jodi Kantor, and Megan Twohey,[4] and the Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative business journalism.

[5] This piece received widespread media attention and may have helped lead to O'Reilly's firing from Fox News.

Steel was born in Salt Lake City but moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and East Lyme, Connecticut before she graduated from the University of North Carolina.