Lora Kelley

I am a newsletter writer and an associate editor at The Atlantic. Previously I wrote about business, technology and cultural change for The New York Times, where I spent four years on the Business and Opinion desks. My writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Nation, GQ and The Drift, among other publications. During college, I was an intern with McSweeneys and The Believer.

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The Atlantic archive
NYT archive

Selected Reporting
On Taylor Swift's foray into publishing The Atlantic
On the woes of the mall restaurant The Atlantic
On America getting sick of dating apps The Atlantic
On the + The Atlantic
On emojis in lawsuits The Atlantic
On how America got scammed The Atlantic
On Sam Bankman-Fried and Silicon Valley mythmaking The Atlantic
On Roger Lee, the creator of "Layoffs.fyi" The New York Times
On library TikTok The New York Times Books
On the parents of Sam Bankman-Fried The New York Times
On LinkedIn and oversharing The New York Times
On remote corporate retreats The New York Times
On Box Tops for Education’s pivot to digital The Atlantic
On Dunkin' as lifestyle brand GQ
Essays
On posting through workdays and layoffs The New York Times Magazine
On tech pivots The Drift
Letter of Recommendation: Boulevard of Broken Dreams The New York Times Magazine
On tech companies and the word democratize Mother Jones
On my normal alarm clock Vox
On surveillance metaphors in fiction The New York Times
Book Reviews
On the history of surveillance The Nation
On foreign correspondents of the lost generation Air Mail
Press
A conversation about LinkedIn and feelings Marketplace
A conversation about Dunkin' merch WNPR

Lora Kelley

Selected Reporting

Essays

Book Reviews

Press