Reporting

Whether she’s waxing comedic about the latest Bachelor episode, demystifying the latest Hollywood strike, or breaking down the latest trend in late night, Laura imbues her work with intelligence, insight, and (when appropriate) a healthy dose of snark.

Laura’s chief skill as a journalist is her versatility. She’s an experienced, empathetic investigative reporter and thoughtful critic who also knows how to crank out a light-hearted feature, blog post, or recap. Better yet, she meets her deadlines every time.

Features

• Late-Night TV Isn’t Dying — It’s Being Strangled (Vanity Fair, 2025)
• Are Studio Screw-ups Choking Late-Night TV? (Vanity Fair, 2025)
• How Quirky Female Crime-Solvers Took Over TV (The Washington Post, 2024)
• Coyote vs. Acme Foreshadows Hollywood’s Very Depressing Future (The Daily Beast, 2024)
• Utah’s Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill Rattles Sundance (The Daily Beast, 2024)
• “Not What I Signed Up For”: The Reality TV Reckoning Is Here (The Daily Beast, 2023)
• “You’re Basically Writing Your Jokes into a Shredder”: Inside the Trump-Era Late-Night Monologue Pressure Cooker (Vanity Fair, 2018)
• How Late Night Sharpened Its Teeth in the Age of Trump (Vanity Fair, 2016)

Investigations

• Three Women Accuse Horror Director of Monstrous Abuse (The Daily Beast, 2023)
• Horatio Sanz’s Sexual-Assault Accuser Speaks Out: “He Abused Me All Over SNL” (The Daily Beast, 2022)
• Comedians Tiffany Haddish and Aries Spears Accused of Child Sexual Abuse (The Daily Beast, 2022)
• “You’re Dying for Your Dream”: Exploited Hollywood Assistants Are at Their Breaking Point — And Fighting Back (The Daily Beast, 2021)
• Nicki Minaj and Husband Kenneth Petty’s Campaign to Silence His Sexual Assault Victim (The Daily Beast, 2021)

Criticism

• The ‘Slacker’ Teen Who Was More than Just a Punchline (The Atlantic, 2025)
• Sundance: I Saw the TV Glow Is a Haunting Neon Masterpiece (The Daily Beast, 2024)
• Netflix’s One Day Series Is a Sexy, Gorgeous Gut Punch (The Daily Beast, 2024)
• Untangling the “Barbenheimer” Box Office Paradox (The Daily Beast, 2023)
• The Real Villain at the Heart of Britney Spears’ New Memoir (The Daily Beast, 2023)
• Guillermo del Toro’s Entire Career Has Led to This Pinocchio Remake (The Daily Beast, 2022)
• The Righteous Gemstones and Succession: Generational Resentment, Served Two Ways (The Daily Beast, 2022)
• Colton Underwood’s Coming Out Colton Wraps a Pile of Garbage in a Rainbow Flag (The Daily Beast, 2021)

Recaps

• Love Is Blind: UK Series-Premiere Recap: “I Made a Mistake” (Vulture, 2024)
• The Bachelor Finale Had a Historic, Shocking Twist (The Daily Beast, 2024)
• The Wickedest Gilded Age Villain Is Actually the Stealth Heroine (The Daily Bast, 2024)
• The Shocking Succession Death Is a Brilliant Game-Changer (The Daily Beast, 2023)
• A.H.S.: Apocalypse’s Return to Murder House Was Shameless Fan Service Done Right (Vanity Fair, 2018)
• The Walking Dead’s Bloody Midseason Finale Set the Stage for Maggie’s Revenge (Vanity Fair, 2016)

Interviews

• The Dodgers Told Me Not to Sing the National Anthem in Spanish. I Did It Anyway. (Yahoo, 2025)
• Parvati Shallow Is More than Just a Villain (Vulture, 2025)
• Replacing Halyna Hutchins on Rust Was the Challenge of a Lifetime (Vulture, 2024)
• Mike Schur Knows Parks and Rec Would Have Seemed “Naive” Post-Trump (The Daily Beast, 2024)
• All Hail Anna Baryshnikov, Queen of the Weirdo Soft Girls (The Daily Beast, 2024)
• David Krumholtz Tells Us His Wildest Hollywood Stories (The Daily Beast, 2024)
• After Years of Being “Typecast,” Andy García Is Getting His Second Act (The Daily Beast, 2022)
• Rita Moreno Dishes on Marlon Brando, West Side Story, and Hollywood Racism (The Daily Beast, 2021)
• National Treasure Betty Gilpin Is Ready for America’s “Gut Renovation” (The Daily Beast, 2020)
• Samantha Bee’s Boiling Point (Vanity Fair, 2019)
• Terry Crews Made Hollywood Listen — And He’s Not Done Yet (Vanity Fair, 2018)
• Desus and Mero and Seth Meyers Talk Late Night, Emmys, and Trump (Vanity Fair, 2019)
• Let Daniel Radcliffe Explain Why His Farting Corpse Movie, Swiss Army Man, Is “Beautiful and Epic” (Vanity Fair, 2016)

Event Coverage

• Kenan and Kel Reunite at 90s Con After Amanda Bynes Cancels — And They Have a Blast (The Daily Beast, 2023)
• The Year Horror Movies Took Over SXSW, From X to Bodies Bodies Bodies and More (The Daily Beast, 2022)
• Samantha Bee’s Anti-White House Correspondents’ Dinner: What You Didn’t See (Vanity Fair, 2017)
• How the Saturday Night Live Writers Crashed Together that Donald Trump Cold Open (Vanity Fair, 2017)
• Stars Hollow Came to Life at the Gilmore Girls Fan Festival (Vanity Fair, 2016)
• The Terrifying Interactive Play Walking Dead Experience Taught Me How to Survive a Zombie Attack (Slate, 2015)