How WSJ reporter Carreyrou became target in video game

John Carreyrou

Kif Leswing of Business Insider writes about how Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou became the target in a Space Invaders video game created by employees at Theranos, the blood-testing company that he exposed for fraudulent business dealings.

Leswing writes, “Not only did Theranos employees once chant ‘f— you, Carreyrou’ at an all-hands meeting, but employees even built a ‘Space Invaders’-style game in which players were to shoot little pictures of Carreyrou’s head, as well as the Zika virus, he tweeted on Thursday.

On Friday, he obtained a picture of the game, “Haters’ gonna Hate v1.5.”

Carreyrou wrote that the game’s creator got in touch with him and would eventually send him the full game so he could play it.

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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.