A senior editor at The Australian Financial Review has said he believed any journalist publishing a sensitive story without legal advice and consultation with the editors would face the sack and there was no way a journalist would have gone rogue and put a story online, that was related to a suppression order, on their own accord.
The Financial Review, its Melbourne bureau chief Patrick Durkin and editor-in-chief Michael Stutchbury, along with more than 20 media outlets and journalists, are charged with contempt of court over stories published in December 2018, which came out of the now-quashed conviction of Cardinal George Pell on child sex abuse charges.
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