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Bruce Guthrie is an Australian journalist and former newspaper editor. [1]
In November 2008 he was sacked as editor-in-chief of Melbourne's Herald-Sun newspaper. He sued his employer, Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd, and won. The court battle and some of Guthrie's earlier career is reported in his 2010 book Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court. [2] [3]
Guthrie grew up in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows. He briefly attended university and was a public servant before starting as a copy boy on The Herald in 1972.
Guthrie has been editor of The Sunday Age , The Age , the Herald Sun , Who Weekly , The Weekend Australian Magazine, and a senior editor at People Magazine in New York. [4]
In 2013, Guthrie was the founding editor of the online newspaper The New Daily. As at the beginning of June 2019, Guthrie is the online paper's editorial director. [5]
Guthrie sued News Ltd in the Supreme Court of Victoria in April 2010 for $2.7 million and after a six-day trial was awarded $580,808. [6] [7]
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Reporters typed their stories on slips of butcher's paper...then a copy boy ran the story into the neighbouring subs' [sub-editor's] room, hence the cry of 'copy'. Each slip of the story had about six carbon copies...stapled together and it was the job of the copy boy - or girl - to separate the original and run it to the subs, and then separate the carbons for distribution.
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