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. During the pandemic, she followed the culture shift around contactless payments, hospitals training frontline workers with virtual reality, Zoom Santas and vaccine passports. 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.

In 2019, Kelly was nominated for an Emmy for her work as an editor on an investigative series about sexual assault cases involving Uber drivers.

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 Princeton with her two children.