Katie Benner is an American reporter for The New York Times covering the United States Department of Justice.

[2] While there, she wrote freelance for the Beijing Review,[1] a media outlet designated as a foreign mission by the State Department,[3] about everything from monks to music.

Prompted by a friend's suggestion that this idea would make an interesting news story, she pitched it to the Portland Press Herald in Maine.

[2] CNN Money was followed by a seven-year run as a New York–based Fortune reporter covering financial markets, hedge funds and private equity.

[9] Her article "Women in Tech Speak Frankly on the Culture of Harassment"[10] was part of a New York Times collection[11] that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

[12] Benner was one of the reporters who broke the story about the Justice Department's Matt Gaetz investigation of alleged sexual relationships with minors.