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How Jessica Lessin’s The Information Has Survived a Decade of Media Tumult | Vanity Fair

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The OpenAI saga was, in many ways, a perfect story for The Information. Reporters at the influential tech site spent the week of Thanksgiving obsessively chronicling the chaos inside the company behind ChatGPT, after its board of directors abruptly ousted its CEO Sam Altman. Five days later, Altman, the generative AI poster boy, was reinstated. By then, The Information had published 17 exclusive news articles on the company that had been picked up hundreds of times by other news outlets. “His firing was announced, and then everyone on my team was sending me all these tweets, where people were saying, ‘Oh, if The Information gets the scoop on this, I’ll subscribe,’ or ‘I really hope my Information subscription’s worth the money,’” editor in chief Jessica Lessin recalls. “And so it really felt like game on.” Lessin—who has followed Altman from the start, writing the first extensive profile on him back in 2005—supported her team throughout the week by, among other things, “reporting in ba

Save this story Save this story The OpenAI saga was, in many ways, a perfect story for The Information. Reporters at the influential tech site spent the week of Thanksgiving obsessively chronicling the chaos inside the company behind ChatGPT, after its board of directors abruptly ousted its CEO Sam Altman. Five days later, Altman, the generative AI poster boy, was reinstated. By then, The Information had published 17 exclusive news articles on the company that had been picked up hundreds of times by other news outlets. “His firing was announced, and then everyone on my team was sending me all

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