Portrait of Karen Zraick

Karen Zraick

I cover the clashes playing out in courtrooms over climate policy and the individuals, advocacy groups and businesses behind the cases.

I joined The Times in 2013. Most recently I worked on the Metro desk, where I covered law enforcement with a focus on the Brooklyn federal court, including cases related to overfishing, transnational repression and gun rights.

While on a detachment to the International desk, I helped cover the Israel-Hamas war.

I have also written about immigration, chronicling the migrant crisis in New York and working on long-term projects on a Bangladeshi enclave in Brooklyn and on the Middle Eastern/North African box on the census.

My 2022 investigation with Dan Barry into a deadly construction site in the Bronx won awards from the Silurians Press Club and the Hillman Foundation. I was also a key member of the team covering Covid-19, for which The Times won the 2021 Pulitzer for public service.

Before joining The Times, I worked at The New York Daily News, The Associated Press and a chain of community newspapers in my home borough of Brooklyn. I am a graduate of SUNY Purchase and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. I speak Spanish and some Arabic.

I share the values and am committed to upholding the high standards outlined in the paper’s Ethical Journalism handbook.

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    No Box to Check: When the Census Doesn’t Reflect You

    Most people of Middle Eastern and North African descent are classified as “white” in U.S. census data. Thousands of respondents to a Times survey told us how they actually identify.

    By Karen Zraick, Allison McCann, Sarah Almukhtar, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Robert Gebeloff and Denise Lu

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    What Happened in One of Israel’s Deadliest Attacks in Gaza

    In this airstrike, Israel was targeting a senior Hamas leader. Dozens of people in a residential neighborhood were killed in the attack.

    By Anjali Singhvi, Bora Erden, Helmuth Rosales, Mika Gröndahl, Rumsey Taylor, Josh Williams and Abu Bakr Bashir

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    As War Closes In, Many Remain in Northern Gaza

    Hundreds of thousands of people are still in the region, despite Israel’s bombing, ground invasion and evacuation directive. Many say the trip to the south is too dangerous.

    By Karen Zraick, Vivian Yee and Emma Bubola

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    A Deadly Airstrike, and Gazans at the Breaking Point

    Israel said it killed a Hamas leader at a refugee camp, but many other people were wounded and killed, Hamas said. The assault came as fuel, food and water shortages pushed civilians to the brink.

    By Matthew Mpoke Bigg, Karen Zraick and Emma Bubola

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