Adrienne LaFrance is the editor of TheAtlantic.com. Previously a staff writer for The Atlantic, she covered technology, politics, and the media. She is a former reporter for Digital First’s Project Thunderdome in New York City, a staff writer at the Nieman Journalism Lab and a reporter in the Washington bureau of Honolulu Civil Beat.
It took a terrorist attack for Google to enter the news business. On September 11, 2001, after hijackers crashed two commercial jets into the World Trade Center as well as a third plane into the Pentagon and another into … Read more
The first time I visited Facebook’s office in Washington, D.C., I was asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement. I didn’t. Then there was the time I got through an entire interview with a product manager at Apple, only to be … Read more
