Katie McQue is an investigative journalist based in New York. Her reporting has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New York Times, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Al Jazeera, Rappler, and other outlets.
Previously based in Dubai and London, she covers human rights and trafficking, as well as the technology, healthcare, energy, and defense sectors.
Her work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the U.N. International Labour Organization’s Global Media Competition on Labour Migration; the Washington, D.C., Dateline Club’s Online Investigative Reporting Award and its Robert D. G. Lewis Watchdog Award; the New York Deadline Club’s Award for Business Investigative Reporting; finalist recognition for Investigative Reporters and Editors’ Tom Renner Award for coverage of organized crime; second place in the Fetisov Awards Contribution to Civil Rights category, and second place for the National Press Club’s Michael A. Dornheim Award for defense reporting.