Published: January 31, 2019
Writer says there has been a cultural shift at the newspapers that ‘I couldn’t stomach’. Plus: the real reason Stefanovic was fired
One of the Sydney Morning Herald and Age’s well-known writers on women’s issues, Clementine Ford, quit in spectacular fashion this week with a spray against executive editor James Chessell on Twitter for allegedly protecting his Liberal party allies. Chessell was once a staffer for Joe Hockey.
Ford, who revealed she had received an official warning in September for calling Scott Morrison a “fucking disgrace” on social media, told Weekly Beast she resigned after seven years because of the “cultural shift” at the newspapers, which are now owned by Nine Entertainment.
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