Bruce Guthrie

Australian journalist

This article is about the Australian journalist. For the American politician and lecturer, see Bruce Guthrie (politician).

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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]

## Early life

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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

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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]

### The New Daily

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In 2013, Guthrie was the founding editor of the online newspaper The New Daily. As of June 2019, he was the publication's editorial director.[5]

## Court case

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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]

## References

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1. ^ "Media Watch: Web extra - A decade of living dangerously (24/11/2014)". www.abc.net.au. Archived from the original on 28 November 2014.
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. ^ "Contact". The New Daily. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
6. ^ "Sacked editor awarded $580,808". 14 May 2010.
7. ^ Guthrie v News Ltd (2010) 27 VR 196.