Jerry Yang Steps Down as Yahoo! CEO, Reporters Battle PR for Scoop

As you may have read by now, Jerry Yang is no longer CEO of Yahoo! While many may be concerned with the company’s stock price, or just who the new CEO will be, here at PRNewser we care about – obviously – the PR tactics behind the announcement.

Specifically, Newsweek technology columnist Dan Lyons is a bit annoyed at AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher, who was the first to report the news. He writes:

Just for the record, here is Kara’s big scoop, which she posted today at 4:50 p.m.

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