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‘Our hearts are broken’: Former Sunrise reporter Nathan Templeton found dead
The 44-year-old is reported to have suffered a medical episode while walking his dog.
- by Calum Jaspan
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New Seven expenses affair rocks Sunrise, top network executives
On October 5, 2022, one of the Seven Network’s most powerful executives sent an extraordinary email to a young media reporter.
- by Nick McKenzie, Calum Jaspan and Kate McClymont
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Seven producer claims model posted ‘intimate image’ as cops probe leak
Taylor Auerbach says Tziporah Malkah posted an “intimate image” of him on Facebook on Christmas Day 2019. Police are now probing claims he leaked naked photos of her.
- by Perry Duffin
Panicked missed calls and ‘silly’ seat demands: New texts expose Lehrmann interview tensions
Spotlight producers thought their interview with Bruce Lehrmann would be “the most amazing thing on Australian TV ever”. But new texts show a different story.
- by Kate McClymont
Seven’s deadly sins: The questionable culture of the network and Mark Llewellyn
The spotlight has been turned back onto Seven’s current affairs show.
- by Jordan Baker, Kate McClymont and Calum Jaspan
Previously unseen draft of Brittany Higgins’ book describes debauchery as like the ‘Wolf of Wall Street’
Hedonistic parties feature in a previously unseen draft of a memoir by Higgins that has been brought to light in a reopened defamation lawsuit.
- by Carrie Fellner
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If only we could sue too: the creepy Spotlight saga is ruining the reputation of all journalists
Spotlight’s efforts to woo Bruce Lehrmann have done the journalistic profession few favours. Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World was shut down for less.
- by Jacqueline Maley
Allegations ‘do not reflect’ culture says Seven, as executives distance themselves from Spotlight boss
Outgoing commercial director Bruce McWilliam distanced the network’s senior executives from Spotlight executive producer Mark Llewellyn in fresh evidence in court on Thursday afternoon.
- by Calum Jaspan
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Lehrmann invoiced Seven for ‘bender’ with cocaine and sex workers, court told
Taylor Auerbach, a former senior producer on Seven’s Spotlight program, claims Bruce Lehrmann purchased a bag of cocaine while they were dining at a Sydney restaurant.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
The lawsuits of Bruce Lehrmann: an observer’s guide
An accusation catapulted the ex-Liberal staffer into the public consciousness from the obscurity of former roles in government and at British American Tobacco.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
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More details emerge of Bruce Lehrmann’s boozy night with masseuses
A friend of Bruce Lehrmann has backed Seven producer Taylor Auerbach’s account of a night out with Lehrmann and two Thai masseuses.
- by Kate McClymont