We’re excited to announce that Karen Zraick will be taking over the Brooklyn courts beat. Karen will be our primary reporter on the local courts as well as the federal Eastern District, which serves up a rich buffet of stories that often transcend national borders — befitting her globe-trotting experience.
Karen has worked on the International desk, live briefings, the home page and the Express desk. For some time she has been a stalwart of Metro’s elite general assignment squad, covering all manner of stories.
She got a terrific interview with one of the Brooklyn subway shooting victims. And in another piece of subterranean reportage, she captained a deep look at how crime is affecting the system, told through the experience of people who spend much of their lives there.
Karen worked on the Bronx fire catastrophe and took a sketch of Newtown, Conn., during the Alex Jones trial to the front page. She plumbed the depths of an elevator breakdown in a Financial District high-rise and investigated deaths at a Bronx construction site.
Karen, who speaks fluent Spanish, was in the middle of the migrant story, with its tent shelters, stunned arrivals at Port Authority and the subsequent hunt for work in the big city.
Over the summer, she embedded with International and spent several weeks in the Middle East where she reported on the Egyptian economy and the water shortage in Jordan.
She can handle the grimmest tales and the most amusing.
Karen is a native of the borough she’ll cover and started her career at a chain of local weeklies.
She started at The Times as a stringer and came on staff in May 2013.
She is a graduate of SUNY Purchase and Columbia Journalism School and serves on the board of the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association.
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