How The New York Times picks reporters

In a story that probably hit close to home to anyone who ever clicked on the wrong email recipient in Outlook, it turns out that attorneys for Lilly sent confidential documents to a New York Times reporter named Alex Berenson instead of an attorney named Bradford Berenson. Katherine Eban, who has linkurl:written for us;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/home/52963/ about biosecurity, linkurl:reported the story;http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/top-5/2008/02/05/Eli-Lilly-E-Mail-to-New-York