Australian Financial Review removes ‘trivialising’ references to female journalists after ABC and Seven complain

The AFR has removed references to two female journalists after complaints from the ABC and the Seven Network. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

The Australian Financial Review has removed references to two female journalists from an article after complaints by the ABC and the Seven Network about the newspaper’s “trivialising” portrayal of their employees.

But the Nine Entertainment-owned paper stopped short of apologising to the women, attaching instead a “clarification” at the foot of the article.