Taylor Lorenz

Taylor Lorenz (born October 21 1984) is an American journalist. She is a columnist for The Washington Post. She was previously a technology reporter for The New York Times, The Daily Beast, and Business Insider, and social media editor for the Daily Mail. She is particularly known for covering Internet culture. Early life and education Lorenz was born in New York City and grew up in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, attending nearby Greenwich High School. She attended college at the University of Colorado Boulder and later transferred to Hobart and William Smith College where she graduated with a degree in political science. Lorenz has stated that the social media site Tumblr caused her to become interested in internet culture. Career Lorenz worked as a social media editor for the Daily Mail from 2011 to 2014, becoming their head of social media. After a short stint writing for The Daily Dot in 2014, she was a technology reporter for Business Insider from 2014 to 2017. In 2017, she wrote briefly for The Hills blog section, and was assaulted by a counter-protester while covering the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. From 2017 to 2018, she worked as a technology reporter for The Daily Beast. From 2019 to 2022, she was a technology reporter for The New York Times. In March 2022, Lorenz left The New York Times and joined The Washington Post as a columnist. In 2019, Lorenz was made a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.