Laura reports from the frontlines of culture, arts, and business. 

Laura is an award-winning writer and visual journalist for The New York Times, a photographer, traveler, creativity adviser, and teacher. She has written about the intersection of money and power in Hollywood, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley for two decades and profiled political and cultural figures from Donald Trump Jr. to George Clooney, David Geffen, and Mark Zuckerberg. Laura is a gifted storyteller and keen observer of culture and human behavior. She created and hosts The Box Sessions, an annual creative gathering. She, too, is a frequent guest on radio shows and podcasts, and received the National Magazine Award for public service reporting.

After starting her career at an investment bank and writing for Smart Money magazine, Laura joined the Times in 1998, first chronicling the mergers and acquisition boom and then, in 2000, moving to Los Angeles to write about Hollywood, Michael Eisner, and The Walt Disney Company. She’s now back in New York City, where she reports for the Features section at the Times.

She has an undergraduate degree in art history from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and went to journalism school at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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