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.