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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Amanda Meade

Murdoch mastheads at odds as sexual assault survivor speaks up about The Australian’s podcast

News Corp Australia's Holt Street headquarters in Sydney
The Australian appeared to declare war on news.com.au after it published an interview with a sexual assault survivor critical of the Oz’s podcast Shadow of Doubt. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

A rare fight between Rupert Murdoch’s Australian mastheads has been playing out in plain sight since news.com.au published an exclusive interview with a sexual assault survivor last week which was critical of The Australian’s podcast Shadow of Doubt. The TikTok video accompanying the article has been watched 9.5m times.

A series of stories by the Walkley award-winning investigative reporter Nina Funnell for news.com.au has been generating clicks The Australian can only dream of: 860,000 unique page views in just over a week. No doubt this only increased The Australian’s ire about the popular news site’s criticism of its podcast and its host, Richard Guilliatt.

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