Kate Kelly

I'm Kate Kelly.

I'm an investigative correspondent covering money and influence for The New York Times.

I remember a story that I worked on.

There was a conspiracy theory about this event.

At the time, I thought, that can't be true.

That seems extreme.

So I went about the reporting.

I did a whole ton of interviews.

And I wrote a draft of the story.

But there was a little part of me that thought, you don't quite have this.

So I went back out and did some more reporting, digging into that little piece that was bugging me.

And it turned out the conspiracists were essentially right.

Because I had that extra time and I was willing to be surprised, I think I got the right story and was able to deliver that to our readers.

So I'm really grateful that that open-mindedness is there in me, but is also shot through our institution where the editor will say, yeah, take another two weeks and get it right.

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I'm Kate Kelly.

I'm an investigative correspondent covering money and influence for The New York Times.

I remember a story that I worked on.

There was a conspiracy theory about this event.

At the time, I thought, that can't be true.