Last year Samantha Maiden won the Gold Walkley, Australian journalism’s highest honour, for her reporting for news.com.au of the Brittany Higgins story. Maiden is the national political editor for the Murdoch-owned masthead, which is the most popular news website in the country.
But being a star reporter for a News Corp outlet does not, apparently, mean much when another News Corp outlet has an exclusive story that involves your leaked private texts with a source.