Katherine Li, West Coast breaking news reporter at the Business Insider.

Katherine Li

Junior Reporter

Katherine Li is a reporter on Business Insider's West Coast business news team. She covers career,  the AI startup culture, and how AI is affecting economic sentiments.

Previously, she was a newsroom fellow who wrote international breaking news and produced newsletters for Semafor. Before that, she wrote about climate policies for The Lever, covered the AAPI community for the SF Chronicle as a freelancer, and wrote about the 2019 Hong Kong protests as an intern for The New York Times.

She is an alumna of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and a graduate of the international journalism program at Hong Kong Baptist University with minors in French and English literature.  

Email Katherine at katherineli@insider.com and follow her on Bluesky @katherineli.bsky.social

Expertise

  • Careers and hiring trends

  • AI startups

  • Trade policies & tariffs

Some of her best works include:

I'm an early participant in a UBI program that helps workers displaced by AI, and the support is life-changing

AI startups are shifting the economic center of gravity of San Francisco

Companies are struggling to fill manufacturing positions, let alone plan for what Trump's administration has in mind

Nightmare on Main Street: Trump's trade war is hurting American small businesses

Articles by Katherine Li

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