Bruce Guthrie

Bruce Guthrie is a senior Australian journalist and former newspaper and magazine 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]

Early life

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.

Career

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]

Court case

Guthrie sued News Ltd in the Supreme court in April 2010 for $2.7 million and after a six-day trial was awarded $580,808.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Media Watch: Web extra - A decade of living dangerously (24/11/2014)". www.abc.net.au.
  2. ↑ "Guthrie v News". Radio National. 12 October 2010.
  3. ↑ "Man Bites Murdoch". 12 October 2010.
  4. ↑ "Guthrie 'told he was best candidate'". 27 April 2010.
  5. ↑ "Sacked editor awarded $580,808". 14 May 2010.
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