Bruce Guthrie is a senior Australian journalist and former newspaper and magazine editor. In November 2008 he was sacked as editor-in-chief of Melbourne's ''

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'' newspaper: he sued his employer,

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'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''.

Early life

Guthrie grew up in the working-class

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suburb of

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. He briefly attended university and was a

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before starting as a

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on ''The Herald'' in 1972.

Career

Guthrie has been editor of ''

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'', ''

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'', the ''

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'', '' Who Weekly'', ''

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Magazine'', and a senior editor at ''

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'' in New York.

The New Daily

In 2013, Guthrie was the founding editor of the online newspaper

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. As at the beginning of June 2019, Guthrie is the online paper's

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Court case

Guthrie sued News Ltd in the

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in April 2010 for $2.7 million and after a six-day trial was awarded $580,808.''Guthrie v News Ltd'' (2010) 27 VR 196.

References

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