Channel 7 journo Josh Massoud ‘threatened to slit colleague’s throat’
SEVEN Network sports reporter Josh Massoud has been suspended after it’s claimed he made a violent threat against a cub reporter over a story about Todd Carney, allegedly saying he’d “slit” his throat and “s*** down” his neck, leaving the 21-year-old in tears.
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SEVEN Network sports reporter Josh Massoud has been suspended from his job after its claimed he threatened to “slit” a rookie reporter’s throat and “shit down” his neck, sources have told The Daily Telegraph.
Yesterday Massoud, a rugby league expert, was called to an off-site meeting between Seven HR representatives and Seven’s Sydney News Director Jason Morrison at which the allegation was addressed.
Massoud had a lawyer present, sources say, as he addressed the claims he threatened a cub reporter, reducing the 21-year-old man to tears, and also abused a Sydney-based producer over the same incident.
Massoud is understood to have been stood down pending an internal investigation by Seven.
He allegedly became infuriated when the young man accidentally broke an embargo on a Todd Carney story that was slated to go to air on the network on Tuesday night.
The story related to North Queensland player Carney’s plans to transfer back to a Sydney club to be closer to his ailing mother.
The young reporter, who it’s believed is an employee of Prime’s regional Queensland network, is understood to have spotted the story on an early Seven news rundown and unwittingly published it to his social media account ahead of the 6pm news bulletin, breaking the embargo.
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The story then spread quickly to other newsrooms.
Massoud did not return the Daily Telegraph’s call.
Seven was yet to respond to questions this afternoon.
