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John L. Dorman is a Brooklyn-based senior politics reporter at Business Insider who focuses on the South, elections and voter trends throughout the US, and voting rights. He is also a features writer who has covered everything from the 2020 South Carolina Senate race between Jaime Harrison and Lindsey Graham to the Democratic electoral dilemma in rural America. His writing and photography have appeared in The New York Times, and his work has also been featured in Fast Company magazine.
For over seven years, John worked at The New York Times, where he was a contributing writer who covered everything from architecture and travel to business and culture; he also produced the New York metropolitan, US and International digital newsletters and created economics graphics for the Business desk. While working at the Travel desk, he wrote about everything from the Art Deco legacy of downtown Los Angeles to the Pittsburgh canvas that inspired the poet and playwright August Wilson. In 2017, The Times won a Society of American Travel Writers Bronze Award for a special section on the Underground Railroad, which included an article by John about how the secret network operated in Detroit and southwestern Ontario, Canada.
John also developed and implemented social media strategies for Travel, including the annual 52 Places to Go feature. After a year of managing the desk’s Instagram account, he increased the number of followers from 700,000 to 1.1 million. Over the course of a year and a half at the helm of Travel’s Twitter account, John executed new digital initiatives that dramatically increased user engagement and raised the follower count from 675,000 to 1 million.
A proud native Southerner, John received a bachelor’s degree in Government from Georgetown College at Georgetown University and attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.