Maureen O'Connor (journalist)

Maureen O'Connor (born c. 1984^{[citation needed]}) is an American journalist.

O'Connor first began blogging for IvyGate while a student at Princeton University, following stories such as the Yale student abortion art controversy in 2008. She moved to Gawker in November 2009.^[1][2] Among scoops she has been credited with breaking was a story about U.S. Congressman Chris Lee's solicitations for sexual partners via Craigslist in February 2011, quickly leading to Lee's resignation.^[3][4]

In May 2012, O'Connor was named features editor at New York magazine's The Cut.^[5] She started writing New York magazine's Sex Lives column in 2014,^[6] and launched New York magazine's Sex Lives podcast in 2015.^[7][8] She became a contributing editor at Vanity Fair in 2019.^[9]