Taylor Lorenz — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Author of the bestselling book "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet" (2023).
Founder of User Magazine, a technology and online culture newsletter.
Host of the weekly tech podcast Power User.
Previously a technology columnist at The Washington Post and a technology reporter for The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Daily Beast.
Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (2019) and former affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center.
Serves on the board of the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Biography

Taylor Lorenz is an American journalist and technology columnist who covers Internet culture. She is the founder of User Magazine, a technology and online culture newsletter, and hosts the weekly tech podcast Power User. In 2023, she published the bestselling book "Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet," which The New York Times named one of the must-read books of fall 2023.