Adrienne LaFrance

LaFrance received her B.A. in journalism from Michigan State University and an M.S. in journalism from Boston University.[2]

She was a national reporter for Digital First Media's Project Thunderdome.[3] She has also served as a staff writer at the Nieman Journalism Lab and a reporter in the Washington bureau of Honolulu Civil Beat.[4] Additionally, she worked as reporter and news anchor for Hawaii Public Radio, and news writer for WBUR, Boston's NPR affiliate.[2]

LaFrance joined The Atlantic in 2014, became editor of the website in 2017, and then executive editor of the entire institution in 2019.[5] LaFrance's journalism covering QAnon was featured in a Fresh Air interview.[6]

• — (October 14, 2015). "Raiders of the Lost Web". 'The Atlantic.
• — (January 18, 2018). "Donald Trump's Very 1990s Tabloid Scandal". 'The Atlantic.
• — (May 1, 2018). "Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Understand Journalism". 'The Atlantic.
• — (May 29, 2018). "Elon Musk Should Know Better". 'The Atlantic.
• — (August 8, 2018). "The Most Powerful Publishers in the World Don't Give a Damn". 'The Atlantic.
• — (August 18, 2018). "Trump's Implicit Defense of Alex Jones Is an Echo of Birtherism". 'The Atlantic.
• — (October 13, 2018). "The Everlasting Joy of Terrifying Children". 'The Atlantic.
• — (January 13, 2019). "Six Hours and Three Minutes of Internet Chaos". 'The Atlantic.
• — (June 4, 2019). "The 'Undesirable Militants' Behind the Nineteenth Amendment". 'The Atlantic.
• — (June 2020). "The Prophecies of Q". 'The Atlantic.
• LaFrance, Adrienne (Dec 2020). "Facebook is a Doomsday Machine". 'The Atlantic.