Ali Watkins is a reporter on Metro desk at The New York Times, where she covers crime and law enforcement in New York.

Previously, she covered national security in Washington for The Times, BuzzFeed and McClatchy Newspapers, where she was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for coverage of the Senate's report on the C.I.A.'s post-9/11 torture program. Ms. Watkins is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, where she began her journalism career as an intern at the Philadelphia Daily News. She grew up in Fleetwood, Pa.

https://www.nytimes.com/by/ali-watkins

Here's the story from her employer which was published in 2018 and explains her reassignment to the Metro Desk.

How an Affair Between a Reporter and a Security Aide Has Rattled Washington Media

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/business/media/james-wolfe-ali-watkins-leaks-reporter.html

Archived link - https://archive.ph/whszx

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Ali Watkins is a reporter on Metro desk at The New York Times, where she covers crime and law enforcement in New York.

Previously, she covered national security in Washington for The Times, BuzzFeed and McClatchy Newspapers, where she was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting for coverage of the Senate's report on the C.I.A.'s post-9/11 torture program. Ms. Watkins is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, where she began her journalism career as an intern at the Philadelphia Daily News. She grew up in Fleetwood, Pa.

https://www.nytimes.com/by/ali-watkins

Here's the story from her employer which was published in 2018 and explains her reassignment to the Metro Desk.

How an Affair Between a Reporter and a Security Aide Has Rattled Washington Media

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/24/business/media/james-wolfe-ali-watkins-leaks-reporter.html

Archived link - https://archive.ph/whszx