Re/code’s Mossberg: I don’t miss the Wall Street Journal

Walt Mossberg

Capital New York interviewed tech news site Re/code co-founder Walter Mossberg about its first year of operation and its future growth plans.

Here is an excerpt:

CAPITAL: How would you sum up 2014 for tech journalism? Do you think the journalistic landscape got more or less crowded?
MOSSBERG: It got slightly more crowded in 2014 and is set to get much more crowded in 2015.
CAPITAL: A lot was made of your decision—with Kara Swisher—to leave the comfy confines of The Wall Street Journal and to start Re/code as an independent site. Do you miss certain aspects of being part of a legacy publication? Have you two enjoyed the freedom of being out on your own?
MOSSBERG: I don’t miss it, even with the challenges of building things like a sales staff that they provided. We have enjoyed being out of a huge legacy media company, but both still prefer doing journalism most days to being in business meetings.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.