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A CAREER OF BEAT, ENTERPRISE AND INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING I am an award-winning journalist, podcast and radio reporter and producer, book author and builder of reporting beats in business, tech, politics and more. My freelance enterprise and investigative reporting work has appeared on NPR and in publications such as MIT Technology Review and CityLab. In 2019, I investigated a proposal to convert coal-fired power plants to data centers, explored the emerging world of fair-trade data labor and introduced National Public Radio listeners to Western New York's meat raffle craze. Since 2018, I have built a new AI and tech ethics beat illuminating the dynamics and tensions at play as corporate tech drives government policy and alters our interactions with the world around us. RedTailMedia.org is my home base for some of this original reporting. Freelance Journalist Various | August 2018-Present At the start of the big data era, this premier publication brought me on board to craft a new beat covering the consumer data industry. I talked daily to insiders at data brokers, software firms and scrappy analytics upstarts while continuing my longtime focus on privacy and political campaigns. Throughout the 2016 election, I exposed concerns around Cambridge Analytica long before the scandal broke. Staff Reporter Advertising Age | 2012-2017 Managing Editor and Reporter ClickZ | 2006-2012 In my time at this digital marketing news outlet, my award- winning coverage of digital political campaigns and watchful reporting on the industry’s privacy self-regulation helped ClickZ become a must-read publication. As a reporter and editor, I delegated work to staff and freelance writers, editing stories, handling CMS publishing, managing email newsletters and authoring special reports. KATE KAYE Kate Kaye @KateKayeReports @RedTailAI 971.291.8727 [email protected] Freelance Journalist and Writer Various | 2000-2006 Just in time for the dot-com bust, I began my reporting and freelance writing career. I tackled an array of topics, from profiling a TV ad music composer to a writing a weekly newsletter about behavioral data-based ad targeting. In these years, I served as one of the earliest editors of Personal Democracy Forum, covering the impact of technology and the Internet on politics, advocacy and government.

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b e a t s i n b u s i n e s s , t e c h , p o l i t i c s a n d m o r e .

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F r e e l a n c e J o u r n a l i s tV a r i o u s |   A u g u s t 2 0 1 8 - P r e s e n t

A t t h e s t a r t o f t h e b i g d a t a e r a , t h i s p r e m i e r p u b l i c a t i o nb r o u g h t m e o n b o a r d t o c r a f t a n e w b e a t c o v e r i n g t h ec o n s u m e r d a t a i n d u s t r y . I t a l k e d d a i l y t o i n s i d e r s a t d a t ab r o k e r s , s o f t w a r e f i r m s a n d s c r a p p y a n a l y t i c s u p s t a r t s w h i l ec o n t i n u i n g m y l o n g t i m e f o c u s o n p r i v a c y a n d p o l i t i c a lc a m p a i g n s . T h r o u g h o u t t h e 2 0 1 6 e l e c t i o n , I e x p o s e dc o n c e r n s a r o u n d C a m b r i d g e A n a l y t i c a l o n g b e f o r e t h es c a n d a l b r o k e .

S t a f f R e p o r t e rA d v e r t i s i n g A g e |   2 0 1 2 - 2 0 1 7

M a n a g i n g E d i t o r a n d R e p o r t e rC l i c k Z |   2 0 0 6 - 2 0 1 2

I n m y t i m e a t t h i s d i g i t a l m a r k e t i n g n e w s o u t l e t , m y a w a r d -w i n n i n g c o v e r a g e o f d i g i t a l p o l i t i c a l c a m p a i g n s a n d w a t c h f u lr e p o r t i n g o n t h e i n d u s t r y ’ s p r i v a c y s e l f - r e g u l a t i o n h e l p e dC l i c k Z b e c o m e a m u s t - r e a d p u b l i c a t i o n . A s a r e p o r t e r a n de d i t o r , I d e l e g a t e d w o r k t o s t a f f a n d f r e e l a n c e w r i t e r s ,e d i t i n g s t o r i e s , h a n d l i n g C M S p u b l i s h i n g , m a n a g i n g e m a i ln e w s l e t t e r s a n d a u t h o r i n g s p e c i a l r e p o r t s .

KATEKAYE

Kate Kaye@[email protected]@redtailmedia.org

F r e e l a n c e J o u r n a l i s t a n d W r i t e rV a r i o u s | 2 0 0 0 - 2 0 0 6J u s t i n t i m e f o r t h e d o t - c o m b u s t , I b e g a n m y r e p o r t i n g a n df r e e l a n c e w r i t i n g c a r e e r . I t a c k l e d a n a r r a y o f t o p i c s , f r o mp r o f i l i n g a T V a d m u s i c c o m p o s e r t o a w r i t i n g a w e e k l yn e w s l e t t e r a b o u t b e h a v i o r a l d a t a - b a s e d a d t a r g e t i n g . I n t h e s ey e a r s , I s e r v e d a s o n e o f t h e e a r l i e s t e d i t o r s o f P e r s o n a lD e m o c r a c y F o r u m , c o v e r i n g t h e i m p a c t o f t e c h n o l o g y a n d t h eI n t e r n e t o n p o l i t i c s , a d v o c a c y a n d g o v e r n m e n t .

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I n t h i s c o n t e n t m a r k e t i n g r o l e , I d e v e l o p e d a n d i m p l e m e n t e dc o n t e n t s t r a t e g i e s , w r o t e r e p o r t s , v i d e o s c r i p t s , b l o g p o s t s ,c o l u m n s a n d m o r e . I a l s o m a n a g e d a n d c o - p r o d u c e d T h eC r e d e n t i a l e d , a p o d c a s t i n t e r v i e w s e r i e s f o c u s e d o n t a l k s w i t hw o m e n a n d u n d e r r e p r e s e n t e d m i n o r i t i e s i n t e c h . I h o s t e d t h es h o w f r o m a p r o f e s s i o n a l r a d i o s t u d i o , c u r a t e d , b o o k e d a n di n t e r v i e w e d g u e s t s , w r o t e s h o w s c r i p t s , c o o r d i n a t e d w i t h o u rr e c o r d i n g s t u d i o e n g i n e e r a n d v i d e o g r a p h e r a n d a s s i s t e d i ne d i t i n g s h o w e p i s o d e s .

B o o k A u t h o rC a m p a i g n ' 0 8 : A T u r n i n g P o i n t f o r D i g i t a l M e d i a |2 0 0 9C a m p a i g n ’ 0 8 w a s p u b l i s h e d i n J a n u a r y 2 0 0 9 a f t e r m o n t h s o fe a r l y w e e k e n d m o r n i n g s w r i t i n g a t h o m e , k i t t y c a t b y m y h e e l s .T h e b o o k c o v e r e d t h e u s e o f d i g i t a l m e d i a b y t h e 2 0 0 8p r e s i d e n t i a l c a m p a i g n s , t r a c i n g t h e e a r l y d a y s o f v o t e r d a t at a r g e t i n g b e f o r e F a c e b o o k a d v e r t i s i n g a n d l o n g b e f o r e C a m b r i d g eA n a l y t i c a . T h i s b o o k s t i l l s e l l s !

C o o k b o o k C r e a t o rT h e P u n k R o c k K i t c h e n P r e s e n t s C o o k i e C h a o s ! | 2 0 0 4O v e r 8 0 0 o f t h i s p u n k r o c k - t h e m e d c o o k i e c o o k - b o o k l e t w e r es o l d . W r i t t e n a n d d e s i g n e d u n d e r p s e u d o n y m C o n n i e S e w e r , t h i sm i n i c o o k b o o k f e a t u r e d s i x o r i g i n a l m u s i c - i n s p i r e d c o o k i e r e c i p e sa n d c a m e w i t h a c o p p e r e l e c t r i c g u i t a r c o o k i e c u t t e r .

H u m o r a n d O p i n i o n C o l u m n i s tT h e L o w b r o w L o w d o w n | 2 0 0 0 - 2 0 0 7T h e L o w b r o w L o w d o w n w a s a n i r r e v e r e n t , a n d h i g h l y - s t y l i z e do p i n i o n c o l u m n a n a l y z i n g t h e e f f e c t s o f m a r k e t i n g a n da d v e r t i s i n g o n c u l t u r e a n d s o c i e t y . I t w a s s y n d i c a t e d i np u b l i c a t i o n s i n c l u d i n g C l i c k Z a n d t h e U K ’ s R e v o l u t i o n M a g a z i n e .

S t r a t e g i c W r i t i n g P a r t n e r a n d P o d c a s t H o s tS a l i e n t M G | 2 0 1 7 - 2 0 1 8

W R I T I N G , P O D C A S T I N G . . .A N D C O O K I E S

AWARDS

Society of Professional

Journalists 2019 First Place

Technology Award

Society of American Business

Editors and Writers Finalist |

2014

American Society of Business

Publication Editors Silver

Award Winner for ClickZ's

Politics | 2011

Incisive Media Journalist of

the Year Award Finalist |

2009-2011 and 2008 Winner

EDUCATION

Buffalo State CollegeBS in Textile Design

1994

MEDIA APPEARANCES

WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show andOn the MediaNPR’s Weekend Edition SundayFox’s Stossel ShowRadio including CBC, OPB

Canada’s Business NewsNetwork

and Sirius Radio’s POTUS

VOLUNTEERING

Audubon Society of PortlandWildlife Care CenterVolunteer and Blog Reporter,Dec 2017-Aug 2019Northstar Clubhouse BoardMember, Aug 2017-Jan 2018UN Hive Data Advisory BoardMember, 2017

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