Lora Kelley
I am a business columnist for The New York Times, and a freelance writer covering tech, economics, and books. I was previously on staff at The Atlantic and The 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 journalism career as a researcher for Times Opinion's series Privacy Project, and I covered the collapse of FTX and trial of Sam Bankman-Fried for the Times and The Atlantic. I am a 2025 Omidyar Network Reporter in Residence and live in Brooklyn.
-
2025
- The Matter of Martin The Paris Review
- A Brooklyn Renter’s Odyssey The New Yorker
- ‘A Moment of Pleasant Indecision’ The New York Review of Books
- On Helen Garner’s The Season The Paris Review
- An Awkward Truth About American Work The Atlantic
- Why ‘Surveillance Pricing’ Strikes a Nerve The New York Times
- Want to Escape the Financial News? Don’t Try a Hobby. The New York Times
- The Man Who Would Save Fro-Yo The New York Times
-
2024 and before
- A Necessary Credential The Drift
- Sam Bankman-Fried’s Losing Game The Atlantic
- What Does Workplace TikTok Look Like During Layoffs? It Gets Weird. The New York Times Magazine
- Why Does Every Tech Company Want to “Democratize” Something? Mother Jones
- How America Lost Its Taste for the Middle The Atlantic
- What Was the Wiretap? The Nation
- The Parents in the Middle of FTX’s Collapse The New York Times
- How LinkedIn Became a Place to Overshare The New York Times
- Welcome to Dunkin' World GQ