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Ms. Lorenz is leaving The Washington Post, where she had a tumultuous tenure.

Taylor Lorenz, the high-profile tech columnist for The Washington Post, said on Tuesday that she was leaving the publication to start her own subscription newsletter on Substack.

Her newsletter, “User Mag,” will continue her reporting on internet culture and the creator economy, covering “who has power on the internet and how that power is being wielded,” she said in an introduction post.

Ms. Lorenz said in an interview that she would keep hosting the Vox Media podcast “Power User” and that she would now be free to do collaborations with other content creators and take up opportunities she wasn’t able to do at The Post.

“I want to be able to publish whatever I want, whenever I want, and I want to get the upside of breaking news,” she said.

Ms. Lorenz was a technology reporter for The New York Times

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