Media Whistleblowers

Unless you are a voracious reader of the news, it was a story you may well have missed. On an otherwise quiet Friday the 13th in June, the Wall Street Journal reported in its B section that the Securities and Exchange Commission had given two former Lucent employees, Nina Aversano and Bill Plunkett, what are called "Wells notices," alerts that they are likely to be the target of a civil action by the government. The following day, the Bergen Record, based not far from Lucent's New Jersey headquarters, noted the Journal story in under 300 words. And the Washington Post covered it in a single paragraph...
· Wells notices [Fortune ]