Does Yahoo Even Know What It Has?

That’s the question asked by Joe Pompeo, who left Yahoo! News a few months ago to join a new-ish startup website called Capital New York.

Pompeo wrote that there’s been a lot of attention lately to Yahoo and how it plans to “redirect” its efforts toward high-quality, original reporting.

The message is basically: What am I, chopped liver? Pompeo and many other high-profile journalists were recruited about 18 months ago to do exactly what Yahoo is now planning to “redirect” its focus to: original content.

This all came to light in a recent NYT

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