Christine Kay

Christine Kay (December 16, 1964 – February 5, 2019) was an American journalist who served as an editor in the Investigations section of The New York Times. Starting in 2015, Kay moved to a new role as Enterprise Consultant. Previously she had served as the deputy editor of the Op-Ed page of the Times beginning in 2003.

At the Times, Kay conceived and edited the Portraits of Grief profile series on the victims of the September 11 attacks.

Career Kay was a reporter and editor with The Pittsburgh Press and later worked at Newsday, where she served in a number of roles including weekend editor, before joining The New York Times in 1995 as a copy editor. Articles that Kay has edited have received notable awards such as Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award. In 2016, Kay co-won both a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and her second George Polk Award for a series on the impact of arbitration clauses in United States law.

Portraits of Grief Kay was primarily recognized for her work on Portraits of Grief, a series of pieces about the victims of 9/11.

Death Kay died on February 5, 2019, at the age of 54 of complications from metastatic breast cancer.