Crikey agrees to destroy copies of leaked News Corp financial statements
Independent news website Crikey has agreed to take down and destroy all electronic and hard copy versions of leaked confidential News Corp financial documents, which showed the Australian newspaper division of the publisher dropped $320m in ad revenues and cut one in eight jobs in the 2012-13 financial year.
Crikey this evening announced that it had reached a legal agreement with News Corp with a statement on its website saying: “Crikey owner Private Media and News Corp have reached a legal agreement that prevents Crikey from hosting or further distributing the News Corporation Australia Weekly Operating Statement for the week ended June 30, 2013.”
“As part of the agreement, Private Media has promised to destroy by 5pm today any hard and electronic copies in its possession.”
The move comes after Fairfax and Crikey reported that the publisher had told rival media organisations it would take “appropriate action” against anyone publishing the leaked internal document.
Brilliant work by Crikey. News Corp appears rather panicked. Clearly hit a nerve.
Now, how long until the documents end up on The Intercept I wonder….
Public shaming is a one-way street when it comes to Rupert.
Too late. Full 276 page doc already saved on share drive. Will be used in years to come to help rate/value stock.
Will The Australian be destroying the leaked ABC salary information they printed?
Seems like an amicable result… Every news publication is in the business of breaking stories, and on each other sometimes even better..but you sometimes wonder who are the weasels who deliberately leak this kind of story and their motivation.
Yeah you wouldn’t want to impose upon the privacy of a company that’s been done for hacking in to the phones of dead girls, would you? That’s just not on.
Muppets.
I trust everybody had their copies of SnagIt running…