Kate Phillips
Online Politics Editor, The New York Times

Kate Phillips is the online politics editor for The New York Times, writing for and editing The Caucus, the politics news blog. Kate has served in various editing roles at The Times since joining the paper in 1995. Those include two stints in the Washington bureau, the first, helping coordinate coverage of the final years of the Clinton administration through impeachment as well as foreign policy matters like Kosovo. The second tour began in 2005, as Washington editor, for the beginning of the second term of President Bush. Between those stints, she was the New York political editor, supervising coverage of Hillary Clinton’s first Senate run, the latter years of the Giuliani administration and government coverage in the aftermath of the September 11 attack. Before joining The Times, she worked in various editing positions at New York Newsday, where she was the city editor. She was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University.