Editing The Inquirer (section)

===Sony laptop battery scandal===
In 2006 ''The Inquirer'' reported laptop battery problems that affected [[Dell]], [[Sony]] and [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] as of September 2006, with rumours of problems at [[Toshiba]] and [[Lenovo Group|Lenovo]]. In June 2006, ''The Inquirer'' published photographs of a Dell notebook PC bursting into flames at a conference in Japan;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32550|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060705062508/http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32550|url-status=unfit|archive-date=5 July 2006|work=The Inquirer|date=21 June 2006|title=Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference|access-date=2 September 2006}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' reprinted ''The Inquirer'''s photographs.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/technology/10dell.html|title=Dell's Exploding Computer and Other Image Problems|first=Damon|last=Darlin|date=10 July 2006|work=The New York Times}}</ref> ''The Inquirer'' was also the first publication to report Dell's subsequent decision to recall faulty batteries, according to ''[[BusinessWeek]]''.<ref name="bw-dell-recall"/>

''The Inquirer's'' successful reporting of the story relied on information supplied by readers and later by a confidential source at Dell. "I attribute being on top of the story to old-fashioned print journalism standards – cultivating, and, if you'll excuse the pun, not burning such contacts," ''The Inquirer''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s founder, Mike Magee, told BusinessWeek.<ref name="bw-dell-recall">{{cite magazine| url=https://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/2006-08-29/the-battery-recall-a-win-for-the-web|magazine=BusinessWeek| date=30 August 2006|title=The Battery Recall: A Win for the Web|access-date=2 September 2006}}</ref>