Lora Kelley

I am a writer in Brooklyn. I was previously on staff at The Atlantic and The New York Times, where I wrote about technology, economics, books, and American life. My criticism and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, The Drift, 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 I write the Shop Talk column on the language of business for the New York Times.