Tech reporter Lorenz joining NY Times’ Culture of Tech team

Choire Sicha of the New York Times sent out the following announcement on Wednesday:

Taylor Lorenz beat the Styles desk on three stories in one month. We had some options about how to handle that. The easiest and most humane solution was … we hired her.

Take it from our friend Kevin Roose, who says:

“Over the past few years, no other reporter has caused me as much pain and misery as Taylor. Seemingly every few days at The Atlantic, she came out with a story so fresh and original, so well-timed and zeitgeisty, and so much better than anything I was working on, that I entered a shame-spiral that lasted for days. As you will all see, she is a lovely, kind person, but competing with her on the tech culture beat is absolute hell. I mean, memers unionizing? Google Docs as a teen chat app? I am thrilled to have her here, where stories like these will be cause for celebration rather than self-pity.”