Good times never last forever, and all will eventually turn to dust.
Our favorite "technology columnist" reminds us of that:
Tech culture columnist Taylor Lorenz is striking out on her own, exiting The Washington Post to launch her own publication on the Substack platform.
Lorenz is launching User Magazine, which will 'cover technology from the user side. It's about who has power on the internet and how that power is being wielded,' she says.
Taylor's colleagues at WaPo watching her go like:
You just know an august media organization like The Washington Post is mourning the loss of one of its top reporters. It's a big hit for WaPo. Lorenz is pretty much a brand unto herself.
So what is Taylor going to do instead of making sure democracy doesn't die in darkness at WaPo?
'I just wanted to get out of legacy media. I feel like it's just really, really difficult to do the kind of reporting that I want to do on the internet within these kind of older institutions as a primary job,' Lorenz tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. 'I like to have a really interactive relationship with my audience. I like to be very vocal online, obviously. And I just think all of that is really hard to do in the roles that are available at these legacy institutions.'
So her problem is that the Washington Post didn't let her "interact" with her audience enough, and didn't allow her to be sufficiently "vocal online?"
Does that mean that up until now she feels she's been non-vocal online?
We've been predicting that Lorenz might be forced out at WaPo for a while now, and it looks like that may have been the case had she not walked:
Lorenz's decision to leave the Post and launch her own publication comes a month after NPR reported that the newspaper planned to review an incident involving a photo she shared on her Instagram.
Here's that photo:
Call out the war machine and you'll inevitably get pushed out of legacy media.
Well, I'm sure we'll all be very interested to see what a "vocal" Taylor Lorenz looks like!
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