Gossip columnist has been dropped by the Sunday Telegraph after 18 years. Plus mud flies over photo of distinguished hacks larking around in the Dead SeaOne of the Sunday Telegraph’s biggest names for the past two decades,the gossip queen Ros Reines, has been retrenched as fraction of News Corp’s latest quiet but brutal cull of senior journalists. Once trumpeted as “the columnist they can’t silence” and given a double-page tabloid spread in which to gossip approximately Sydney celebrities, and Reines was dumped by telephone last week. She told Weekly Beast she had been unceremoniously made redundant by a News Corp manager and not the paper’s editor,Mick Carroll. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com