Is “whistleblower” a dirty word? No one asked that question directly at a panel discussion on whistleblowers Tuesday, hosted by the Center for Corporate Integrity at Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business in Manhattan. But it came up.
“I’ve got this label of ‘whistleblower,’” Sherron Watkins told the audience, “which is ‘troublemaker.’” Watkins was the insider who blew the whistle on Enron Corp. in 2001. Later that year she was on the cover of Time magazine when she and two other whistleblowers were chosen as “Persons of the Year” for speaking out. Nothing pejorative there.
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