Kate Kelly (born February 24, 1975) is an American reporter for The New York Times.

Kelly was raised in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of the National Cathedral School^[1] after which she attended Columbia University where she received a B.A. in history in 1997.^[2][3] After school, she worked for Time magazine and the New York Observer where she wrote a weekly residential real-estate column, "Manhattan Transfers."^[2] she then worked for The Wall Street Journal for ten years as an investigative journalist and then in 2010 she was hired by CNBC as an on-air reporter.^[2] In 2016, she was hired by The New York Times as their business reporter.^[2]

Kelly is also the author, with Robin Pogrebin, of The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation with a publishing date in September 2019 from Portfolio Books, a division of Penguin Random House. Before publication, the Times published a widely criticised^[4] essay adapted from the book that primarily addressed accusations about an incident with Deborah Ramirez and another incident alleged by Max Stier, both of which occurred at Yale.^[5] Before Kavanaugh's confirmation in October, 2018, Pogrebin, also at the Times and a classmate of Kavanaugh at Yale, and Kelly, were featured in a podcast about what the then-judge's classmates were saying concerning his nomination to the Supreme Court.^[6]

Kelly is married to editor Kyle Pope;^[7] she has three daughters.^[2]

• 2004 Gerald Loeb Award for Deadline Writing
• 2008 Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Writing
• 2009 Livingston Award for Excellence in National Reporting