Selected Work

The thorn in Uber’s side

Los Angeles Times / Profile

Lyft defies predictions by continuing to grow as a rival to Uber

Los Angeles Times / Feature

I failed my driving test twice. Will Google’s self-driving car save me?

Los Angeles Times / Essay

Silicon Valley welcomes Modi with song, dance – and a Shazam joke

Los Angeles Times / Article

Uber gets big win in Nevada as Legislature OKs bill authorizing service

Los Angeles Times / Feature

Why are women leaving the tech industry in droves?

Los Angeles Times / Feature

How a Safeway checker (who raps) got his break in video game biz

Los Angeles Times / Feature

Inside San Francisco’s Housing Crisis

Vox / Feature

Los Angeles Times article collection

Los Angeles Times / News articles

No Girls Allowed

Polygon / Feature

Puppy Love: How dogecoin spawned an improbable community

GOOD / Feature

Dodgeball: An Extreme Second Chance At Childhood

Polygon / Feature

Eve: The Most Thrilling Boring Game in the Universe

Polygon / Feature

Keeping Women Out Of Games

Polygon / Video / Opinion

Hello there! My name is Tracey Lien and I am a journalist. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am currently a technology reporter at the Los Angeles Times.

I once heard through the grapevine that a mysterious public relations representative described me as “a pain in the ass, but fair.” This description filled me with so much glee I almost threw up.

A pen pal who later became my housemate (who then built this here website for me) wrote in a personal essay that he thought I was among “some of the finest human beings this stinking ball of garbage called Earth had ever produced.” I definitely threw up that time.

—Tracey