WAY Ahead of the pack: Walmart/Green Dot
June 17, 2010
Ha! I saw with amusement as the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Associated Press, Reuters, and the rest of the world covered the fact that Walmart had taken a stake in Monrovia-based Green Dot, which is in the midst of an IPO. Almost all the articles credited the Financial Times with picking up the story first, on Tuesday.
Our readers would have realized this is old news — we covered the news June 4th. That’s eleven days (11 days) ahead of the mainstream press.
(We actually frequently break stories first, before the Silicon Valley tech blogs, local newspapers, the national press, etc.–the traditional way that journalists usually gain bragging rights– but seldom are credited. Ah well!)
