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Editor’s Roundtable: Stories About Stories

by Longreads October 11, 2019October 19, 2022

Longreads editors discuss stories in ProPublica/The New Yorker, Wired, and Esquire.

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by Longreads May 9, 2012October 19, 2022

Inside the boardroom battles that led to the hiring (and firing) of CEO Léo Apotheker, formerly of SAP. Meg Whitman is now in charge of finding ways to fix the legendary tech company: A few months after she took over as the CEO of Hewlett-Packard last September, Meg Whitman held one in a series of […]

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