Katherine Blunt is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal covering Alphabet, Google and the way AI is changing the way we search for information. Her remit includes other aspects of the AI race, including the data center buildout and its implications for the power grid.

Katherine previously wrote about power and utilities for the Journal from 2018 to 2025. Her coverage of PG&E, reported in close collaboration with Russell Gold and Rebecca Smith, was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and earned a Gerald Loeb award. The series also won the 2019 Thomas L. Stokes Award for energy and environmental writing, as well as a silver Barlett & Steele award through the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.

Katherine also collaborated with Jeff Horwitz on a series investigating how Meta's algorithms connect users interested in pedophilic content and help them find it on Instagram and Facebook. They shared a Loeb award for beat reporting in 2024.

Katherine is the author of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid, which was published in 2022. The book earned a Golden Poppy award for nonfiction.

Prior to joining the Journal, Katherine was a business reporter at the Houston Chronicle. There, she wrote a three-part series on how Joel Osteen built Lakewood Church into one of the nation’s largest by deploying sophisticated marketing and branding tactics taken from the corporate playbook. Texas Associated Press Managing Editors awarded the series second place in feature writing in 2018.

Katherine also covered transportation for the San Antonio Express-News, where she investigated why the first public-private toll road in Texas, as well as many others financed prior to the recession, went bankrupt several years into operation. Texas Associated Press Managing Editors and Editor & Publisher both awarded the investigation first place in business journalism in 2017.

Katherine grew up in Maryland and attended Elon University. She lives in San Francisco.