there is no chance the reporter is lying. reporters are definitely not prone to lying to get a good story.
he confirmed telling "I am no longer involved in that and I cannot discuss it" so she didnt lie here, also this means that he knew about what she was talking about, this guy is not dumb....
see in this Video he said " i ahve nothing with developing, I was just an eginneer doing something else"
http://youtu.be/-oRq7e8GMII so he knew abou the developing part.
but the funnier thing is that here he said : " I have nothing to do with Bitcoin, I never worked for the company...."
http://youtu.be/kk2Lys4CuDU?t=48s so now Bitcoin is a company... this guy is just trying to hide something..
According to the article i read he also said this in the interview:
Asked if he said the quote, Nakamoto responded, "no."
"I'm saying I'm no longer in engineering. That's it,"
he said " I wasn't talking about Bitcoin but about being an engineer", so she asked about Bitcoin clearly but he heard engineering ?