Kathleen Murphy

Senior Reporter

Kathleen Murphy is a senior reporter for FTCWatch and previously served as an editor in the MLex Washington, DC, office.

Murphy worked as a reporter and editor for CQ Roll Call, Stateline.org and Internet World. Early in her career, she served as the Marco Island bureau chief and columnist for the Naples (Fla.) Daily News.

Murphy was Marymount University’s inaugural journalist in residence for the 2019 to 2020 academic year. She earned degrees from Yale Divinity School and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Selected Insights by Kathleen

Exploring the cons of ‘antiracist antitrust’ policies

15 May 2023 00:00 Kathleen Murphy

Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter tweeted about the Federal Trade Commission’s role and “how we can be antiracist” in 2020.
Act against data-driven bias, advocacy groups tell FTC

27 March 2023 00:00 Kathleen Murphy

A coalition of advocacy groups and lawmakers urged the Federal Trade Commission to hold companies accountable as online harms against people of color and women proliferate.
2023 means uphill climb for FTC

13 January 2023 00:00 Kathleen Murphy

The year ahead will intensify congressional scrutiny of the FTC, generate vigorous debate about new merger guidelines
TikTok in regulatory crosshairs again

19 December 2022 00:00 Kathleen Murphy

The Chinese-owned ByteDance Ltd., which owns TikTok, has come under growing scrutiny from US regulators
Bedoya, focused and passionate, talks about putting consumers first

05 December 2022 00:00 Claude Marx, Kathleen Murphy

Bedoya, proposed rulemaking on commercial surveillance and data security and decided several major cases on consumer protection and competition