At First Look Media, Personalities Prove Tough to Manage
Others noted the inherent challenges in journalism start-ups that seek to build themselves around big names. “The naïveté of trying to construct something around very irascible personalities is coming to the front,” said Rafat Ali, the co-founder of Skift, a website covering the travel industry, and the media news site PaidContent. “Back in the day, there was a reason there were temperamental journalists and then editors and subeditors. Editors were the people who managed these egos.”