Samantha Murphy Kelly, a senior tech writer at CNN, was among the layoffs at the news organization on Wednesday.
She has been with CNN since 2016. She previously was the deputy tech editor at Mashable.
Kelly covered lifestyle tech and entertainment at Mashable, which she joined in 2011. Before joining Mashable, Kelly covered the tech industry as a senior writer for TechNewsDaily and wrote stories for sister publications LiveScience.com and Laptop Magazine.
She also spent five years at a retail trade magazine writing about social media and technology, worked at ABC News in the Brian Ross investigative unit and got her start in journalism at CourtTV.com, where she reported on high-profile court cases.
She’s a graduate of New York University with a degree in journalism.
