Katie Merx is longtime news reporter and trusted strategic adviser to global leaders, innovators and companies. She is CEO of Merx Communications. Merx has worked as a staff reporter for a variety of news outlets, including Bloomberg News and the Detroit Free Press. Among her accolades are a piece of the Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism awarded to the Grand Forks Herald in 1998, nomination for another Pulitzer Prize in 2008 and a Gerald Loeb Award for breaking news coverage for the Detroit Free Press.