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Re:Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family by rbobby on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:56AM (#12978533)
The reporter likely contacted a bunch of Theranos employees via LinkedIn (and probably sorted the list based on former/current).

Was Tyler the only confidential source to talk to the WSJ? Probably not. because of that whole two sources rule good journalists follow.

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Re:Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family by cft on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:38PM (#12979537)
So your theory is that after Tyler's initial complaint, the regulators waited for a year, and then leaked the anonymous complaint to WSJ, which randomly contacted a bunch of employees, including the original anonymous tipper?
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Re:Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family by vkou on Thursday November 17, 2016 @01:27PM (#12979977)
Alternatively, another employee tipped off the WSJ (Instead of, or in addition to a regulator,) and the WSJ started contacting current, and former employees, to see if their story had any legs.
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Re:Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company and His Family by prostoalex on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:54PM (#12982074)
WSJ has its own tipsters, the reporter in question was interviewed by Jason Calacanis a while back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgwJA-GOlg

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