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

News.com.au clocks up numbers its stablemate can only dream of with stories critical of Shadow of Doubt. Plus: union access curtailed at the ABC Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Want to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter here 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. We won’t go into the distressing details of the case here but Guilliatt interviewed the convicted child sexual abuse offenders from jail, which devastated the survivor. The Australian appeared to target news.com.au with a len

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