How do you think outsiders get access to insiders to write articles about what happened behind closed doors at large corporations? Affiliated with, no. Unless

How do you think outsiders get access to insiders to write articles about what happened behind closed doors at large corporations? Affiliated with, no. Unless the author was there, just made everything up or sourced the details via 3rd party reporting (or as is the case in the opening line - via google published papers/press releases) then yes google PR personel would have been involved.