The Seven West board, led by Kerry Stokes, has probed shock claims of cocaine and sex workers plaguing investigative program Spotlight, with questions raised over the extent of knowledge in the finance department and among Seven executives. News.com.au understands that news and current affairs boss Craig McPherson told the executivesContinue Reading
The Morning Show hosts Kylie Gillies and Larry Emdur welcomed cub reporters to the studio on Friday to help launch the Kids News Junior Journalist Newsroom, as experts agreed it was critical that young Australians developed skills to recognise and create trustworthy content. As rampant disinformation rapidly redefines what itContinue Reading
Seven West Media chief executive James Warburton is leaving the troubled company more than two months earlier than expected. “Current managing director and chief executive officer James Warburton will finish at SWM today … with Jeff Howard commencing in the role on April 19,” the company announced to ASX saidContinue Reading
Ex-Spotlight producer Taylor Auerbach has dropped a new bomb on Channel 7 sending a concerns notice regarding comments purportedly made by a number of the network’s executives. The concerns notice names Seven chief executive James Warburton, Kerry Stokes’ longstanding right-hand man Bruce McWilliam and producer and blogger Robert McKnight, andContinue Reading
Justice Michael Lee has found that the “inescapable conclusion” was that law student Bruce Lehrmann leaked confidential court documents obtained during his criminal trial, including Brittany Higgins’ private text messages, to Seven’s Spotlight program. The leaking of the private contents of Ms Higgins’ phone, which she has previously described asContinue Reading
Sunrise host Natalie Barr broke down live on-air while paying tribute to her breakfast show colleague who died suddenly this week. Nathan Templeton, 44, suffered a medical episode while on a walking track near the Barwon River in Geelong on Monday evening. The morning show honoured the late reporter duringContinue Reading
One of the most senior figures in Australian media has defended sending a graphic email to a reporter at a rival organisation, in order to defend a colleague and “friend” from a looming negative story. Bruce McWilliam, commercial director at Seven, fired off an angry message in 2022 to ZoeContinue Reading
The laptop allegedly used to leak the Spotlight program text messages sent by Lisa Wilkinson’s husband to Brittany Higgins had a bookmark to the University of Notre Dame, where Bruce Lehrmann was studying law. Mr Lehrmann has always vehemently denied he was involved in leaking documents to Spotlight. The networkContinue Reading
Bruce Lehrmann has emerged for the first time since allegations were aired in the Federal Court that he partied with sex workers with a Spotlight producer as the Seven Network sought to seal the deal on an exclusive interview. The former Liberal staffer has moved out of his Balgowlah homeContinue Reading
Brittany Higgins wrote of playing “game planning” for her meeting with Scott Morrison in her unreleased memoir, with fresh pages released as evidence in the Bruce Lehrmann and Network 10 defamation case. Ms Higgins signed a $250,000 book deal with Penguin Random House Australia in 2021 to “shine a lightContinue Reading