Adrienne LaFrance

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Adrienne LaFrance is an American journalist, executive editor of The Atlantic and former editor of TheAtlantic.com. [1] [2]

Career

LaFrance received her B.A. in journalism from Michigan State University and an M.S. in journalism from Boston University. [3]

She was a national reporter for Digital First Media's Project Thunderdome. [4] She has also served as a staff writer for Nieman Journalism Lab, at Harvard University, and a reporter in the Washington bureau of Honolulu Civil Beat, [5] before moving to Washington state. [3] Additionally, she worked as a reporter and news anchor for Hawaii Public Radio, managing editor for Honolulu Weekly and news writer for WBUR—Boston's NPR affiliate. [3]

LaFrance joined The Atlantic in 2014, became editor of the website in 2017, then executive editor in 2019. [6] Formerly a staff writer, [7] she covered technology, politics and the media. [5] Her writing appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , Gawker , Slate , The Awl , and several other newspapers and magazines. [3]

LaFrance was on Fresh Air in 2020 where she talked about what it is like to be a person for whom facts matter, but to be immersed in QAnon and conspiracy theories for her reporting. [8] Her reporting, titled "The Prophecies of Q," was called a recommended read to understand the group's storytelling techniques by CNN's media reporter. [9]

She also spoke about gender imbalance in American news media on the radio program On Point. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Adrianne LaFrance", The Atlantic Accessed May 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ "A Conversation with The Atlantic's Adrienne LaFrance and James McAuley". www.asc.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Adrienne LaFrance". Honolulu Civil Beat. Retrieved 2021-08-01.
  4. ↑ "The newsonomics of Digital First Media's Thunderdome implosion (and coming sale)| Nieman Lab". Nieman Lab. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
  5. 1 2 "Adrienne LaFrance Archives". Nieman Foundation. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
  6. ↑ "LaFrance Upped To 'Atlantic' Executive Editor", Media Post, March 14, 2019. Accessed May 9, 2019.
  7. ↑ "Adrienne LaFrance". Mother Jones . Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  8. ↑ Davies, Dave (August 20, 2020). "Journalist Enters The World Of QAnon: 'It's Almost Like A Bad Spy Novel'". NPR.
  9. ↑ Stelter, Brian (2020-08-14). "QAnon is conspiratorial, dangerous, and growing. And we're talking about it all wrong. | CNN Business". CNN. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  10. ↑ "Tackling The Gender Imbalance In News Media". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 2023-02-01.


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