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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 boyonThe 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 of June 2019, he was the publication'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]
