Lambda School lays off 65 employees

Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by akanet on Thursday April 29, 2021 @07:05PM (#26987956)

Any former employees interested in speaking to a motivated reporter about their experience, please feel free to contact me. My contact information is on my account bio. I am happy to speak to you completely off the record, in any manner that makes you comfortable. I have never lost a source.

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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by legerdemain on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:42PM (#26989362)

I'm kind of curious about what's making you follow up on the Lambda story a year since your initial reporting. Are you working on a longer story on the topic (a book?), or trying to build up a journalistic brand for yourself, or something else?

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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by mathattack on Saturday May 01, 2021 @01:27PM (#27008043)

I don’t know who the author is but generally once a reporter becomes an expert in a controversial subject they follow it to the end. Look at Theranos and Enron.

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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by legerdemain on Sunday May 02, 2021 @06:13AM (#27013851)

No, I specifically wanted to know why Vincent Woo, founder of CoderPad and rookie investigative journalist, was staying on this story. Your generic answer is not what I was looking for.

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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by mathattack on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @12:33AM (#27034096)

Ahh. Maybe New York Magazine wants a follow-up?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-p...

Or are you suggesting other motives?

I don’t have a horse in this race.

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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by pmorici on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:08PM (#26989151)

"motivated reporter" Strange way to describe oneself as a reporter isn't it? Shouldn't a reporter's goal to be to follow the facts where ever they lead devoid of any particular motive?

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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by jishnum on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:25PM (#26989263)

Off-topic, is there any cue in the above comment to indicate 'motivated' should be read as 'has a defined motive' vs 'enthusiastic / hard-working' ?

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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by pmorici on Friday April 30, 2021 @12:41AM (#26989876)

Well, if you click through and look at the OPs work they have previously written an article about the company they describe as, "basically accused the school and its chief officer of fraud".

On the comment itself though it is looking for former employees and stressing the anonymous source angle. If I'm promising not to reveal the identities off the bat I'm clearly fishing for negative views on something. Have you ever read an article where an anonymous source said something glowingly positive about a subject?

I sort of agree that Lambda School is probably over selling itself but if I were looking to learn more about it in a balanced manner I would probably use more neutral language when soliciting information.

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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by whiddershins on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:32PM (#26989300)

That’s not off topic, because i read the comment the other way.

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Re:Lambda School lays off 65 employees by chrisoverzero on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:38PM (#26989336)

That’s not what “motivated” means in this context.

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