Roger Parloff Explained

Roger Harris Parloff (born 1955)[1] is an American journalist who formerly worked at Fortune and currently is a senior editor at Lawfare.

Roger Parloff
Birth Name:Roger Harris Parloff
Education:Harvard University (AB)
Yale University (JD)
Occupation:Journalist, writer
Employer:Fortune (2004–2016)

Education

Parloff earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American literature and language from Harvard University and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.[2]

Career

Before joining Fortune, he was a legal editor for Inside.com, the author of the book Triple Jeopardy,[3] and a senior reporter for The American Lawyer.[4] He began working at Fortune in 2004, and continued to work there until 2016. He served as an editor-at-large at Fortune from February 2015 until he left the magazine in November 2016.[5]

Reporting on Theranos

In 2014, he wrote a cover story for Fortune about the health technology company Theranos and its founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes. After John Carreyrou's reporting for The Wall Street Journal revealed serious problems with the company's technology, Parloff attempted, unsuccessfully, to get the company to tell him the number of tests they could conduct using a finger-stick blood sample. He subsequently published another article in Fortune describing the misleading statements made to him by the company.[6] [7] [8] In 2019, Parloff participated as an interviewee in .[9]

Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia: 2005 . Parloff, Roger (Harris) . Writers Directory . 2019-03-30.
  2. News: Top law firms hire their share of UM graduates Rankings: A lawyers' magazine's survey gives the University of Maryland Law School more respect than the unflattering report in U.S. News & World Report. . Bowler . Mike . 1998-04-22 . The Baltimore Sun . 2019-03-30 . en-US.
  3. News: Coughing It Up . Parloff . Roger . 2000-09-24 . The New York Times . 2019-03-30.
  4. Book: Giavanni, Marcus . Nelson Vs. the United States of America: A System in Denial . registration . 1998 . G & B Pub. . 9780966092806 . 344 . en.
  5. Web site: Fortune Says Goodbye to Roger Parloff . 2016-11-30 . Cision . 2019-03-30.
  6. Web site: Theranos Sounded Too Good to Be True—and It Is . Allen . Samantha . 2016-02-02 . The Daily Beast . en . 2019-03-30.
  7. Web site: How Theranos Misled Me . Parloff . Roger . 2015-12-17 . Fortune . en . 2019-03-30.
  8. Web site: 8 Weird Things We Learned from the HBO Elizabeth Holmes Documentary . Dickson . E. J. . 2019-03-19 . Rolling Stone . en-US . 2019-03-30.
  9. Web site: Primack. Dan. What jumped out from new Theranos documentary "The Inventor". 2021-04-14. Axios. en.

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