Yael Grauer

Yael Grauer is an American investigative journalist who covers privacy, digital security, and surveillance. As a contributor to an Associated Press team, she shared the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a global investigation of mass surveillance technology and its spread from Silicon Valley and China to the U.S. Border Patrol. Her co-winners were the AP journalists Dake Kang, Garance Burke, Byron Tau, and Aniruddha Ghosal. She later ran cybersecurity research at Consumer Reports, where she managed its Security Planner guide.