Keach Hagey
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Keach Hagey | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Occupations | Journalist, author |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Employer | The Wall Street Journal |
| Spouse | Wesley Harris |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | keachhagey.com |
Keach Hagey is an American journalist and non-fiction writer.[1]
Hagey grew up in Evansville, Indiana.[2] She has a bachelor's and a master's in English literature from Stanford University.[1][3]
Career
Hagey is a media reporter at The Wall Street Journal where she covers the intersection and interplay between tech companies like Facebook and Google on one side and the media on the other.[1] She has also covered OpenAI[4] as well as 21st Century Fox, Time Warner, and Viacom for the Journal.[1]
Hagey was part of a team at the Journal that won the George Polk Award and the Gerald Loeb Award.[1]
At the Journal, Hagey covered media owners and executives including Sumner Redstone, Shari Redstone,[5] Rupert Murdoch,[6] Arianna Huffington, Katie Couric,[7] Jeff Zucker, Jeff Bewkes,[8] Shane Smith[9] and Nancy Dubuc.[10][3]
Prior to the Journal, she worked at Politico,[11] CBS News,[12] and The Village Voice.[1][13] She interned for Wayne Barrett at The Village Voice.[14]
Hagey was interviewed by NPR's Audie Cornish about Les Moonves, the former chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation.[15]
She started her career with the Queens Chronicle.[16]
Books
Hagey is the author of a 2018 book about Sumner Redstone titled The King of Content: Sumner Redstone's Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire.[17][18] Hagey discussed the book in interviews with Brian Lamb of C-SPAN[14] and with Peter Kafka on the Recode Media podcast.[19]
In 2025, Hagey published a biography of Sam Altman titled The Optimist Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future.[20] James Ball reviewed the book for The Guardian.[21] Tim Wu reviewed the book in The New York Times.[22] Hagey spoke with Vanity Fair's then editor in chief Radhika Jones, then executive editor Claire Howorth, and then editor Michael Calderone about Altman's views, ambitions, and career.[23]
