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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Selected Reporting
- 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
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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
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Book Reviews
- On the history of surveillance The Nation
- On foreign correspondents of the lost generation Air Mail
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Press
- A conversation about LinkedIn and feelings Marketplace
- A conversation about Dunkin' merch WNPR
- On weird plane behavior The Atlantic