# We did our best, but we were powerless to reinvent journalism — it was a digital riptide! — Tech News and Analysis

<https://gigaom.com/2013/09/11/we-did-our-best-but-we-were-powerless-to-reinvent-journalism-it-was-a-digital-riptide/>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

I think we should blame them a little, and here’s why: because there were senior people in the industry who saw the disruption coming — saw it clearly, appreciated the implications, and talked about the potential damage. These weren’t voices crying in the wilderness, but fairly powerful players. To take just one example, there was Knight Ridder excecutive Kathy Yates, who ran the company’s digital unit, and eventually grew frustrated with the industry and moved on to Women.com and then CBSMarketwatch.

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