Roger Harris Parloff (born 1955) is an American journalist who formerly worked at '' Fortune'' and currently is a senior editor at ''

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''.

Education

Parloff earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American literature and language from

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and a

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from

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Career

Before joining ''Fortune'', he was a legal editor for

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, the author of the book ''Triple Jeopardy'', and a senior reporter for ''

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at ''Fortune'' from February 2015 until he left the magazine in November 2016.

Reporting on Theranos

In 2014, he wrote a cover story for ''Fortune'' about the health technology company

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and its founder and CEO,

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. After

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's reporting for ''

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'' 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. In 2019, Parloff participated as an interviewee in '' The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley''.

References

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