Kate Conger and Ryan Mac are technology reporters for the New York Times.

Kate writes about X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, and its owner, Elon Musk. In more than a decade of covering the tech industry, she has written about the underground world of hackers, the use of artificial intelligence in autonomous weapons and labor uprisings in the gig economy. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Ryan has spent more than a decade reporting on wealth and power in Silicon Valley, first on staff at Forbes, and then at BuzzFeed News, where he was a senior reporter. He led the outlet’s deep reporting on Facebook, which garnered a 2019 Mirror Award and a 2021 George R. Polk Award. He is based in Los Angeles.

In 2022, Kate and Ryan began reporting on Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. Character Limit, forthcoming from Penguin Random House, is their first book. They are represented by Adam Eaglin of The Cheney Agency.