Samantha Kelly,

Samantha Murphy Kelly is a senior writer at CNN Business who writes news stories and features about how technology impacts our lives. As a consumer tech reporter, she frequently writes first-person accounts of new gadgets and services, contextualizing their influence on how we live. She covers major companies such as Apple and Samsung, interviews executives, engineers, and designers to tell deeper stories about innovation. During the pandemic, she reported on contactless payments, virtual reality in hospitals, Zoom Santas, vaccine passports. She also covers technology's impact on education, parenting and child development while exploring privacy and security challenges like robocalls and ransomware to data collection. In 2019, Kelly was nominated for an Emmy for her work as an editor on an investigative series about sexual assault cases involving Uber drivers. Before joining CNN in 2016, she was an editor at Mashable and other tech publications. She is a graduate of New York University and lives in Princeton with her two children.