The Next News Disruption Has Already BegunThe Next News Disruption Has Already BegunJessica Lessin at this year's WTF: Women in Tech, Media and Finance summit. Art by Clark Miller
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The Next News Disruption Has Already Begun

The Information’s founder and CEO on navigating the changing relationship between readers and the media over the next decade.

By
Jessica Lessin

I could tell something had happened when I saw the river of notifications on my phone—WhatsApp messages, Slack messages, tweets and texts. “Can’t wait for The Information’s read on this one.” Gulp.

Sam Altman had been fired as CEO of OpenAI. I spent the next two weeks with The Information team uncovering everything about what had happened. In the end, we produced 27 exclusive news stories about Altman’s dismissal and eventual return to OpenAI as the events unfolded.