Bruce Guthrie
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Bruce Guthrie is an Australian journalist and former newspaper editor.{{cite web| url=http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s4135058.htm| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141128220653/http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s4135058.htm| url-status=dead| archive-date=28 November 2014|title=Media Watch: Web extra - A decade of living dangerously (24/11/2014)|website=www.abc.net.au}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2010/3035696.htm|title=Guthrie v News|date=12 October 2010|website=Radio National}}{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/man-bites-murdoch/2671196|title=Man Bites Murdoch|date=12 October 2010|publisher=}}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/former-editor-bruce-guthrie-sues-news-ltd-for-breach-of-contract/news-story/fffe31c225cb10ff67d079b8cdca5a6a|title=Guthrie 'told he was best candidate'|date=27 April 2010|publisher=}}
=The New Daily=
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.{{Cite web|url=https://thenewdaily.com.au/contact/|title=Contact|website=The New Daily|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-07}}
Court case
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/sacked-editor-bruce-guthrie-awarded-580808/story-e6frg996-1225866785477|title=Sacked editor awarded $580,808|date=14 May 2010|publisher=}}Guthrie v News Ltd (2010) 27 VR 196.