Emily Dreyfuss is a journalist who covers the impact of technology on society, with a focus on social media and information systems. She is the director of the Shorenstein Center’s News Lab, and previously was senior editor on the center’s Technology and Social Change (TaSC) team. Emily got her start in journalism as a local newspaper reporter, then as an editor at an alt-weekly, before entering the tech reporting fray as an editor at CNET. She was a senior writer and editor at WIRED for many years and helped launch the tech news site Protocol. As a 2017-2018 Harvard Nieman Berkman Klein fellow, Emily studied ephemerality and the internet. She is interested in how technology accelerates change.