Kate Kelly is a New York-based staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal’s Money & Investing section, where she covers the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market, the American Stock Exchange and trading firms.

Prior to joining The Wall Street Journal in January 2001, Ms. Kelly was a writer and reporter for Time magazine in 2000, where she covered business, society news and politics, including the presidential vote re-count. She also worked as a reporter for the New York Observer from 1997 to 2000.

In February 2004, the American Society of Newspaper Editors named Ms. Kelly, along with fellow Journal reporters Ianthe Jeanne Dugan and Susanne Craig, finalists for the Jesse Laventhol Prize for deadline news reporting by a team. In October 2003, she and fellow Journal reporter Susanne Craig jointly received an award from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University for spot news coverage of the New York Stock Exchange.

Born in Washington, D.C, Ms. Kelly received a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College at Columbia University. She currently resides in New York City.