Kara Swisher's Stated Goal: One 'Really Good' Scoop Per Week
About a third of the way through Benjamin Wallace’s crackling New York magazine profile of 51-year-old tech journalist extraordinaire Kara Swisher, there are two reminders of how effectively she blankets her beat.
Exhibit Re/a:
Swisher has heard of current Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer holding a meeting in which she graphed the impact on Yahoo’s stock price of various Swisher posts.
Exhibit Re/b:
“It is a constant joke in Silicon Valley when people write memos for them to say, ‘I hope Kara never sees this,’” says Facebook’s [Sheryl] Sandberg.
There are also, in Wallace’s piece, bits of valuable info for other journalists.
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