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The Active Voice: Taylor Lorenz still believes in the internet

The Active Voice

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The Rise and Fall of Social Media

I tried to get hired at BuzzFeed like four times. It was very, very hard to convince editors to let me do that full time. I wanted to write about the internet from the perspective of a user. And there just wasn't that role, really. There's so much credentialism in legacy media. A lot of these places consider it beneath them to hire somebody.

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