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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
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Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter tweeted about the Federal Trade Commission’s role and “how we can be antiracist” in 2020.
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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.
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The year ahead will intensify congressional scrutiny of the FTC, generate vigorous debate about new merger guidelines
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The Chinese-owned ByteDance Ltd., which owns TikTok, has come under growing scrutiny from US regulators
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Bedoya, proposed rulemaking on commercial surveillance and data security and decided several major cases on consumer protection and competition