Taylor Lorenz is a technology columnist for the Washington Post's business section, covering online culture and the content creator industry. She was previously a technology reporter for the New York Times' business section, the Atlantic, and the Daily Beast. Her writing has appeared in New York magazine, Rolling Stone, Outside magazine, and more. Taylor frequently appears on NBC, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, and the BBC. She was a 2019 Knight Visiting Nieman fellow at Harvard University, where her research focused on Instagram and news consumption. She is also a former affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and serves on the board of the Alliance for Technology, Learning and Society (ATLAS) Institute at the University of Colorado.

Taylor often appears in documentaries on Netflix, Hulu, and HBO, including Netflix's Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga, HBO's Fake Famous, and HBO's Glitch: The Rise & Fall of HQ Trivia. In 2020, she helped adapt a feature she wrote for the New York Times into the documentary Who Gets to Be n Influencer?, which ran on FX and Hulu.

Taylor was named to Fortune's "40 Under 40" list of leaders in Media and Entertainment. Adweek included her in its "Young Influentials Who Are Shaping Media, Marketing and Tech" listing, stating that she "contextualizes the internet as we live it." Town & Country named her to its "New Creative Vanguards" list of a rising generation of creatives, calling her "the Bob Woodward of the TikTok generation." In 2023, Taylor was named Tech and Media Influencer of the Year by the World Influencers & Bloggers Assoc.