Renee Dudley is a tech journalist. Currently, she is a Senior Reporter at ProPublica. Previously, Dudley was an investigative reporter at Reuters. Before that, she was a reporter at Bloomberg and at daily newspapers in South Carolina. In 2011, she was named Journalist of the Year by the South Carolina Press Association. She also received the Eugene S. Pulliam First Amendment Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for exposing a South Carolina law that kept vital public records secret. Dudley's first book, "The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime," was published in 2022. Renee received her B.S. and B.A. in Journalism, International Relations, and French from Boston University.