Empire strikes back: News Corp turns blowtorch on former Australian reporter | The Weekly Beast

Former social affairs reporter Rick Morton attacked in print and online. Plus: Rowan Dean ignores police over Sydney stabbing attacks

It doesn’t take long for a top reporter at the Australian, with a regular presence on page one, to become the target of a front-page story in the combative national broadsheet.

It was just two months in the case of social affairs reporter Rick Morton – who resigned after publicly criticising the paper he had worked on for seven years. After exiting the Oz, Morton joined a growing line of ex-journalists critical of the way the increasingly rightwing paper operates.

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