Worth the Time
IT IS SOMETIMES HARD to fathom, in our era of instantaneity, how long the timeline can be for putting together a print magazine. Our story in this issue on the striking SolarWinds hack—by David Z. Morris and Robert Hackett, two of the most seasoned and sophisticated writers on cybersecurity that I’ve ever read—got its germination shortly after this jaw-dropping breach was reported in mid-December. Viv Walt, our senior special correspondent in Europe, began reporting on Elon Musk’s controversial Gigafactory in Germany (see “Cold-Blooded”) in the days before Thanksgiving, when she heard the brouhaha building in Berlin. If my email archive is to be believed, writer Rey Mashayekhi first pitched his feature on Wells Fargo (“Busted Stagecoach”) way back in June, after gathering string on the troubled bank in several other stories.…