Here, all voices in the piece except the "citizen scientist" Johansen are authorities on whales at some level. I think it's fair considering the scientific nature of the article.
30-word lede. Check.
I liked Philip's funny quote that it may be whale's navigation mistake and not such a big deal or pattern:
“This remarkable movement shows either that humpback whales are amazingly flexible, or that they’re capable of making amazingly large navigational mistakes!’’
The kicker however seemed more like promotion for Boston Globe. It could definitely have been made stronger. Also, Johansen is a source, perhaps the co-protagonist along with Mccullogh, but not the coauthor. It is a good effort to bring the story full-circle though, Johansen being in the lede:
“This is my first time as coauthor of anything at all,’’ Johansen wrote. “You can imagine my surprise when it turned out the way it did!’’
Also I feel there are two stories intertwined here: the power of social networking in enabling discoveries and the poor whale's story (which is subdued under the former story) that traveled record-breaking 6000-miles as precursor to future studies.
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