Laura Mandaro

Laura Mandaro is The Information's managing editor of news and talent. Laura joined The Information in 2020 as a senior editor and has managed a team of reporters focused on venture capital and startups who won SABEW awards in 2021 and 2022 for their reporting on the fundamental changes sweeping the industry. Before joining The Information, she was San Francisco bureau chief for Forbes, where she managed a team of technology, venture capital and future-of-industry reporters. Previously, she was a technology and national editor at USA TODAY in San Francisco, where she led coverage of the unexpected consequences of the tech boom and helped launch a consumer tech blog. She spent seven years at Dow Jones/MarketWatch, starting as an industrials and aerospace reporter and eventually leading the markets and investing teams, where she was an editor on a SABEW-award winning series on gold. She started her career at American Banker in New York City.