Christine Kay, a Pittsburgh native, was one of the most talented newspaper journalists of her generation.
An investigative editor at The New York Times, she edited prize winning stories about homeless children and the human toll of terrorism. In 2001, she helped to conceive “Portraits of Grief,” a celebrated series of remembrances about each victim of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Chrstine graduated from Penn State University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and began her career at the Pittsburgh Press. At the New York Times, where she started as a copy editor in 1995, Christine was an exacting and beloved editor who pushed reporters to focus on the most impactful stories, while also pushing the newspaper’s top leaders to support that ambitious work.
After battling metastatic breast cancer for many years, Christine died on Feb. 5, 2019. She was 54 years old.
The Christine Kay Memorial Fund was established by her family and will support journalism students with scholarship funding at The City University of New York (CUNY) to help students start their own careers in journalism.