A Candid Conversation with Taylor Lorenz on Journalism and Gossip Surrounding Reporters

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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Taylor Lorenz joins us today to talk about a host of things. Taylor is a journalist for The Washington Post and her beat covers the internet and online culture. Together we talk about the ins and outs of different social media apps today (why is TikTok growing so rapidly, which social media app is next on the horizon), different online content creators (is Axel Webber an industry plant, and what was the story about GirlWithNoJob) and much more. I also ask Taylor for her take on if journalists ever look at blind items ("100% they do") and we cover blind items on different journalists - Tucker Carlson, Julian Assange and of course, Elon Musk finds his way into the blind items again when it comes to gossip about journalists. Try BetterHelp online therapy! FluentlyForward listeners get 10% off their first month. Betterhelp.com/fluently Want to try the lowest cost meal kit? Try EveryPlate and use code FLUENTLY179 to get meals for as low as $1.79!

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, and welcome back to another episode of Fluently Forward.
0:18.6	Today on the podcast we have Taylor Morens.
0:21.6	I read her articles, I hadn't realized that it was her articles, and then I saw her in
0:25.8	TikTok and I started following what she was writing about because if you are online
0:29.9	in any capacity, which I guess nowadays is like, are you a human being with a pulse?
0:34.8	You're probably online, and a lot of her articles cover tech, internet culture, different
0:39.9	influencers, types of content that's trending, which I don't know, I'm fascinated by it.
0:44.4	I think we all are.
0:45.4	That's why we, you know, stay glued to our phone for eight hours every day.
0:49.1	It's so sad.
0:50.5	So some pieces that you might recognize Taylor from, she broke the news on Axel Weber.
0:55.4	Trust me.
0:56.4	I asked about him being a plant.
0:57.8	I had to get to the bottom of the Axel Weber situation.
1:01.6	She wrote the piece about the White House briefing TikTokers about the situation in Ukraine,
1:06.9	which you probably saw the SNL parody of that.
1:09.9	And then she also covers other issues like, you know, what types of memes are trending
1:14.8	and why, or you know how everyone was saying crop and story time in the TikTok comments?
1:20.0	Why is that happening?
1:21.0	Things like that.
1:22.0	So we have a fun, pretty lengthy interview that I'm excited to get to.
1:25.2	I ask her all about the ins and outs of internet culture, social media apps, different content
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