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.

She previously covered power and utilites for the Journal. She is the author of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid. The book, a national bestseller, won the 2022 Golden Poppy award for nonfiction.

Her coverage of PG&E, a collaboration with two colleagues, was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and earned a Gerald Loeb award.

She also collaborated on a special project investigating child safety problems on Meta platforms. The work earned a Gerald Loeb award in 2024.