Another Blemish for T Magazine's 'The Transformers' Piece

Erik Wemple finds fault with a third portion of Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen's already challenged article.

As Erik Wemple puts it, three of the five mini-profiles that anchor Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen’s contribution to the Oct. 25 issue of T magazine ‘are now limping.’

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The latest problem with the article, titled “The Transformers” in print and “Five Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World” online, involves Leila Janah (pictured, second from right). It turns out Arrillaga-Andreessen is both an advisor to and angel investor of Janah’s crowdfunding healthcare effort Samahope:

Through a New York Times representative, [T magazine editor Deborah] Needleman issued this statement in response to questions from the Erik Wemple Blog: “I sought Laura out because of the way she thinks about philanthropy and business, and asked her to highlight five companies we both thought were innovative.

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