“Mike may have gotten a lot of things about journalism wrong, but this one he got right: The duty of a media owner is to readers first, following very closely by a duty to support their team. All other confrontations are survivable as long as you do right by those two groups.”— Sarah Lacy, pando.comTagged: Media Companies, Media Ownership, Writers, TechCrunch
“Nothing about Vice's journey makes sense. Nothing about it is a 'playbook' that any other media company could actually follow. It's completely fucking weird and not algorithmic and shouldn't have worked. And that's why, whether it always follows the rules of journalism or not, Vice is a real media c…”— Sarah Lacy, pando.comTagged: Journalism, Media Companies, New Media Wars, Upworthy, Vice