From private investigators to a 5-hour meeting with superstar lawyer David Boies, here are the lengths Theranos went to contain The Wall Street Journal’s bombshell story

Hollis Johnson/Business Insider When Theranos learned what Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou was digging into, the company went through some tremendous lengths to get ahead of the story.  In Carreyrou’s new book, “Bad Blood,” he details the legal sit-downs with superstar lawyer David Boies, and the suspected private investigators that tailed some of his […]

The Online Journals Giving a Voice to Africa's New Writers

When Dami Ajayi and Emmanuel Iduma were students at Nigeria’s Obafemi Awolowo University, they used to send each other their writing samples, going back and forth, sharing rejection slips from literary magazines in North America. Frustrated, Ajayi, a medical student, and Iduma, a law student at the time, decided to start their own online literary […]