Taylor Lorenz

Taylor Lorenz is an American culture and technology reporter for The New York Times Styles section, covering topics related to internet culture. In 2020, Fortune magazine included her in their 40 Under 40 listing and Adweek included her on their "2020 Young Influentials Who Are Shaping Media, Marketing and Tech" list. She was a 2019 Knight Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and is an affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.[1]

Taylor Lorenz
EmployerThe New York Times
Awards
Writing career
Genrejournalism
Subjectinternet culture
Websitewww.taylorlorenz.com

Career

Lorenz joined The New York Times in September 2019.[2] She previously worked as Global Head of Social Media for Daily Mail[3][4] and wrote as a technology and culture writer for Business Insider,[5] The Atlantic, and The Daily Beast.[6][1][7] For the Times, Lorenz works as a culture[8] and technology reporter, covering trends in social media and the internet habits of young people.[6][9] According to The Caret, her reporting is consumed frequently by "Silicon Valley venture capitalists, marketers and...anyone curious about how the internet is shaping the ways in which humans express themselves and communicate."[10]

After calling out comments made to The Verge by a CEO, Lorenz was subject to numerous threats and online attacks.[11][12][13]

Accolades

Lorenz was named to Fortune Magazine's 40 Under 40 listing for 2020 under the "Media and Entertainment" category, with Fortune stating that she has "cemented herself as a peerless authority" whose name became "synonymous with youth culture online" during her time with The Daily Beast and The Atlantic.[6] That same year, Adweek included her in their "2020 Young Influentials Who Are Shaping Media, Marketing and Tech" listing, stating of Lorenz that she "contextualizes the internet as we live it."[14] Reason Magazine credited her with popularizing the term OK boomer in a story declaring "the end of friendly generational relations."[7]

References
  1. "Taylor Lorenz - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  2. "Taylor Lorenz to Join Styles". The New York Times Company. 2019-08-14. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  3. "The 60-second interview: Taylor Lorenz, head of social media, The Daily Mail/Mail Online". POLITICO Media. 2014-07-18. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  4. "Taylor Lorenz". Insider. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  5. "Taylor Lorenz". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  6. "Taylor Lorenz | 2020 40 under 40 in Media and Entertainment". Fortune. Retrieved 2020-09-03.
  7. "Taylor Lorenz Makes Sense of Online Culture for the Rest of Us". Reason.com. 2020-02-26. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  8. "How to Report on Internet Culture and the Teens Who Rule It". The New York Times. 2020-07-16. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  9. "How The New York Times' Taylor Lorenz gets teenagers to talk about their digital habits". Digiday. 2020-03-24. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  10. "Taylor Lorenz - Interview". The Caret. 2020-02-13. Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  11. Levy, Steven (2020-07-10). "Where Are the Adults in the Clubhouse?". WIRED. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  12. Newton, Casey (2020-07-07). "How Twitter is shifting the power balance from companies to their employees". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  13. "Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App". VICE. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  14. "Meet Adweek's 2020 Young Influentials". Retrieved 2020-09-04.
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