Katrina Kaufman is an award-winning journalist and lawyer who splits her time between New York and Washington D.C.

She is an on-air political reporter and legal analyst at CBS News. She has focused on the trials and 2024 campaign of President Donald Trump, traveling the country covering the election and presidential transition. Katrina was in the courtroom for all of Trump’s civil and criminal trials, providing live on-air coverage and analysis. She covers the Supreme Court as well. She covered Trump’s first foreign trip to Paris after his election and was the sole reporter with Trump and Elon Musk at the SpaceX test launch in Texas.

Katrina previously covered international and domestic affairs for CNN and BBC News. At CNN, Katrina was nominated for a 2023 Emmy Award while producing for Fareed Zakaria GPS. She also worked with Brian Stelter’s Reliable Sources, Erin Burnett OutFront and at CNN+, where she developed shows for Audie Cornish and Don Lemon. At the BBC, she reported and produced stories for a nightly show on global issues, including rolling breaking news coverage of the October 7th attacks in Israel, Israel-Gaza war and Russia-Ukraine war.

She started her career working on films including the Oscar-winning “Avatar” and "It's Complicated," but left Hollywood to return to her alma mater, Columbia University, for graduate work in journalism and law.

She holds a Masters degree from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, where she focused on broadcast journalism and developed a passion for news and documentary film. Concurrently, she earned a Juris Doctor from Columbia's Law School while specializing in issues of free expression, media and criminal law. She also was a research assistant for professor Tim Wu, a former Biden antitrust advisor.

Katrina has reported from around the world. After graduate school, she joined the digital news start-up Coconuts Media in Bangkok, Thailand as a Senior Producer and Legal Counsel. At Coconuts, she created and lead the video department, Coconuts TV, while also acting as in-house legal counsel during Coconuts' aggressive expansion into neighboring markets (Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines). She hosted, filmed, wrote and produced breaking news, feature and short documentary videos, including coverage of the Hong Kong Umbrella protests, Thailand’s coup, and the plight of Rohingya refugees in Myanmar.

In her free time, she loves exploring the world, drawing, skiing, hiking, yoga, and reading novels.