Chris Lehmann’s Purple Reign gives an inside view into the demise of the Yahoo News machine. Weighing in at nearly 9 thousand words it might take you a while to get through it. I’ve snipped out some of my favorite passages from my own perspective. The original article is a much better read than my uneven summary.
Beg, Borrow, Steal
Lehmann relates how one of his reporters acted to get his job done without overdue concern to corporate support:
My reporting team did important and groundbreaking work on … the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill—our reporter moved down to New Orleans from New York, on his own dime, to cover it.
Often we have to get things done without all the support we would like–without all the resources we think we need. I like this example of dedication from this reporter who moved to the site of a big story to cover it.