Taylor Lorenz’s road to becoming a technology reporter featured many twists and turns. She started out by blogging on Tumblr and rose to internet stardom, soon realizing she could turn her passion into a reporting gig — but editors didn’t agree. “It took a really, really long time to convince people that this could be a full time beat,” Lorenz says. People made fun of her in 2010 when she would call herself a tech reporter. She never stopped writing about tech but spent most of that decade working on social media for ad agencies and big outlets including McGarryBowen, the Daily Mail, Mental Floss and The Hill — leading and innovating their social media presence. She finally got a full-time role at The Daily Beast, and took a major pay cut. The gamble paid off as she got hired by The Atlantic and The New York Times before landing her current role at The Washington Post — and she has half a million followers on TikTok. Throughout this journey, she’s also made the news a lot — from revealing the identity of the woman behind the Libs of TikTok account to her brief suspension from Twitter in December for
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