Kathleen McGrory

Kathleen McGrory is an editor for the New York Times’ Local Investigations Fellowship program. She was previously a reporter on ProPublica’s national staff.

Before that, McGrory was an investigative editor and reporter at the Tampa Bay Times. There, she and a colleague won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting and were finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Their work prompted federal investigations, policy changes, millions of dollars in settlements and the passage of a new state law.

McGrory started her career at the Miami Herald. She holds degrees from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is an adjunct instructor at the University of Florida. Her work has also been honored with a Polk award, an IRE award, a Scripps Howard award and the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Journalism.