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Seven West Media CEO James Warburton Makes Immediate Exit Following Scandal
James Warburton, CEO of Australia's Seven West Media, makes an immediate exit, following court revelations about the group's reporting practises.
The court in the defamation trial, however, heard testimony from former Seven Network producer Taylor Auerbach that the company may have paid for drugs and prostitutes along the way to obtaining an exclusive interview with Lehrmann that it aired in 2022 as part of its Spotlight program. The revelations about Seven’s reporting practices, including earlier evidence that the network had paid Lehrmann’s rent in Sydney for a year, caused “Spotlight’s” “Trial and Error” episode to be disbarred from the prestigious Walkley Awards. “The entry did not accurately describe the extent of benefits provided to Mr Lehrmann in exchange for interviews, information and exclusive access,” the Walkley Foundation said in December.
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