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1. August 25, 2011 04:40 PM

   Fortune Inside the Pfizer Fiasco

   A deeply reported piece on a management crisis at the giant drug company

   By Ryan Chittum

   Fortune has a dandy read in this issue on an executive fiasco at Pfizer that led to the sacking of two executives, including the CEO. Or as it puts it on the cover: WHAT HAPPENED at PFIZER The Inside Story of REVENGE, BETRAYAL, and POWER at the Top of the World's Largest Drug Company. Believe it or not, that headline's...

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2. November 19, 2012 02:40 PM

   A reporter is fired; colleagues quit in protest

   The Hudson Register-Star reporter refused to include information in his story

   By Peter Sterne

   On November 8, Tom Casey, a reporter at the Hudson Register-Star, a community paper in upstate New York, wrote an article about a city budget meeting. The next day, he was fired. The week after that, nearly half of the newsroom resigned. The story that Casey, 24, wrote contained a lot of interesting information—the proposed budget for 2013 ($11.9 million),...

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3. October 9, 2012 01:51 PM

   Neutron Jack: ‘I quit!’

   Welch ends Fortune and Reuters contracts after tough coverage

   By Ryan Chittum

   I've long wondered why business magazines run Jack Welch's columns. BusinessWeek ran it for years but stopped a month after Bloomberg bought the magazine and installed Josh Tyrangiel as editor. As Tyrangiel later told Capital New York, "There was a lot management guru bullshit, to be honest. A lot of stuff about finding the best you, and I just thought,...

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