Samantha Murphy Kelly

Samantha Murphy Kelly is a senior writer at CNN Business who writes news stories and features about how technology impacts our lives. As a consumer tech reporter, she frequently writes first person accounts of new gadgets and services, contextualizing their influence on how we live. In addition to following major companies such as Apple and Samsung, and speaking with executives, engineers and designers to tell deeper stories about innovation, Kelly identifies emerging trends in the tech space. She also covers how technology is changing education, parenting and child development, and the challenges around privacy and security, from robocalls and ransomware to data collection. Before joining CNN in 2016, Kelly was an editor at Mashable and other tech publications. She is a graduate of New York University and lives in New York with her husband and two children.