Bruce Guthrie
Bruce Guthrie is a senior Australian journalist and former newspaper and magazine editor. In November 2008 he was sacked as editor-in-chief of Melbourne's "Herald-Sun" newspaper: he sued his employer, Rupert Murdoch's News Ltd, and won: the court battle and some of Guthrie's earlier career is reported in his 2010 book "Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court". Early life. Guthrie grew up in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows. He briefly attended university and was a public servant before starting as a copy boy on "The Herald  in 1972. Career. Guthrie has been editor of The Sunday Age", "The Age", the "Herald Sun", "Who Weekly", "The Weekend Australian Magazine", and a senior editor at "People Magazine" in New York. The New Daily. In 2013, Guthrie was the founding editor of the online newspaper The New Daily. As at the beginning of June 2019, Guthrie is the online paper's editorial director. Court case. Guthrie sued News Ltd in the Supreme Court of Victoria in April 2010 for $2.7 million and after a six-day trial was awarded $580,808.