Lora Kelley

I am a freelance writer in Brooklyn covering tech, economics and books. I was previously on staff at The Atlantic and The New York Times, and my criticism and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Drift, The Nation and other publications. I started my career as a researcher with Times Opinion's Privacy Project series on surveillance, and I later covered the collapse of FTX and trial of Sam Bankman-Fried for the Times and The Atlantic. I was a 2025 Omidyar Network Reporter in Residence, and I write a biweekly column on language for the New York Times business section.