Kate Adelia Conger (born April 1989) is an American journalist and writer who works for ''

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''. She has previously worked as a reporter at ''

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'' and ''

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''. She is the co-author of 2024's '' Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter''.

Career

Conger began her career writing for the ''

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'' and the ''

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''. From 2016 to 2017, Conger worked as a reporter for ''

'', covering tech policy and cybersecurity. From 2017 to 2018, she worked as a reporter for ''

''. Conger was the first to report on the infamous Google Memo written by former employee James Damore, in which he disparaged

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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. Conger joined ''

'' as a writer in July 2018. Along with writers Daisuke Wakabayashi and Katie Benner, Conger was a 2019

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finalist in

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for their coverage of

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, a former Google executive who was paid $90 million in severance to expedite his leaving of the company after credible allegations of sexual harassment. In September 2024, Conger and co-author

Ryan Mac Ryan Mac is a Vietnamese Americans, Vietnamese-American writer and journalist who works for ''The New York Times''. He has previously worked as a reporter at ''Buzzfeed News'' and ''Forbes''. Mac was awarded the 2019 Mirror Award and the 2020 G ...

released '' Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter'', which covers Musk's poorly executed $44-billion-dollar acquisition of Twitter.

References

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