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Apple CEO Cook: Staffers who leak memos to reporters don’t belong

Apple CEO Tim Cook sent a memo to company employees stating that those who leak memos and information to reporters “do not belong” at the company, reports Zoe Schiffer of The Verge.

Schiffer reports, “Tim Cook sent an email to Apple employees Tuesday evening about an all-hands meeting that leaked to The Verge last week. He said the company is doing ‘everything in our power to identify those who leaked’ and noted that ‘people who leak confidential information do not belong’ at Apple.

“On September 17th, Tim Cook announced during an internal company-wide meeting that Apple would be requiring frequent testing for unvaccinated employees — but was stopping short of a vaccine mandate. He also said that he was ‘looking forward to moving forward”’ after the Epic v. Apple antitrust case. Shortly after the meeting, both pieces of news leaked to The Verge.

“Now, Cook is tying the news to product leaks — which the company has historically gone to great lengths to track down.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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