First Look Finds The Hard Part Isn’t The Journalism, It’s Reinventing How a Newsroom Works

By: Mathew Ingram | GigaOm

Ever since former Rolling Stone investigative reporter Matt Taibbi suddenly left First Look Media — which had wooed and finally won him over by promising him his own magazine-style site devoted to politics called The Racket — there have been questions raised about why, and whether it meant that all was not well at the new-media entity, created with much fanfare by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar last year. Now the organization itself has reported on Taibbi’s departure, and provided a glimpse at the turmoil that has been going on inside the startup.