Today, Taylor Lorenz announced she was leaving the Washington Post to form her own Substack site.
“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.”
She’s not trashing the Post by name but she is trashing the media in general. As for whether she is leaving before she got fired, that’s not clear to the author of the Hollywood Reporter story.
Lorenz’s decision to leave the Post and launch her own publication comes a month after NPR reported that…
