Kendra Barnett is associate editor, US, at The Drum. Based in New York, she manages day-to-day coverage of the US market and works alongside global editors to shape editorial strategy across the publication. She also spearheads The Drum's coverage on big tech, media and data, and has a special interest in tech ethics and regulation. She writes a weekly newsletter rounding up all of The Drum’s top media stories.

Some of Kendra’s most notable stories include a scoop on Forbes’ shady media-selling practices, a scoop on a Yahoo IP lawsuit, ongoing coverage of business upheaval at X post-Elon Musk acquisition, analysis of TikTok’s regulatory challenges in the US market, reports on the US Justice Department’s landmark antitrust trial against Google and Microsoft’s historic acquisition of Activision Blizzard, an exposé on Reddit’s API pricing protests and an intimate conversation with disgraced Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland.

Outside of her work as a journalist, she is a poet and Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist with work appearing in the American Literary Review, Into the Void Magazine, Emrys Journal, The Evansville Review and more. She holds a master's degree in creative writing from the University of Cambridge.

You can share all your tech, media and data tips and pitches with her at kendra.barnett@thedrum.com. Follow Kendra’s coverage on X, LinkedIn and Threads.