first "What makes a company newsworthy (unless it's as a case study) is its size, or potential size."
then "But articles of that type are case studies, not news"
first "Do you really want to read articles about all of them? I don't."
then "I've been running one for the past 7 years. And I'm interested in reading about others."
I think what you want is for Jason to have said "I wish the technical community were focused on case studies of awesome companies rather than news stories about funding and growth." Which I think he would agree with, and would remove your points.
(Not that case study vs news is a real dichotomy -- what's stopping someone from calling news about a round of funding a "case study about getting funding"? Why can't there be news stories about how awesome the customer experience at X has gotten?)
In fact, we see case studies as news (and even less-than-news) all day long here and elsewhere. You can tell by the titles that generally come from blogs and usually look clickbait-y: "How Company/Developer X achieved goal Y," "Why Language Z helped us triple our revenues," etc.
News is, by definition, about current events. Case studies are about past events. So, in general, they can't be the same thing (even if, of course, the publication of an interesting case study can be interesting - and current - news).
"Why can't there be news stories about how awesome the customer experience at X has gotten?": If you really want to know, I advise you to read "Storytelling: Branding in practice".
News is, by definition, about current events. Case studies are about past events.
You are logically incorrect. Well, by your own logic. How can you publish news about a current event? To be written as news it has to be happened in the past.
then "But articles of that type are case studies, not news"
first "Do you really want to read articles about all of them? I don't."
then "I've been running one for the past 7 years. And I'm interested in reading about others."
I think what you want is for Jason to have said "I wish the technical community were focused on case studies of awesome companies rather than news stories about funding and growth." Which I think he would agree with, and would remove your points.
(Not that case study vs news is a real dichotomy -- what's stopping someone from calling news about a round of funding a "case study about getting funding"? Why can't there be news stories about how awesome the customer experience at X has gotten?)