Herald Sun apologises for Logies leak but continues to claim story did not appear on its website

Tim Burrowes

April 17, 2012 9:30

Screenshot of Herald Sun website featuring Logies story it says did not appear on website

The Herald Sun has withdrawn its suggestion that its leak of Hamish Blake winning the gold Logie was because Google had accessed an unpublished story.

However, the newspaper has continued to insist that the news story did not appear on its website.

The newspaper last night issued an apology. Meanwhile, today’s Sydney Morning Herald reports that seven Herald Sun staffers were “frogmarched” out of the ceremony after the result leaked.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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3 COMMENTS

Jacob 17 Apr 12

“Google is in no way responsible for what happened. We did not intend to imply any error on Google’s behalf.”

Odd. Yesterday, they quite exlicitly claimed Google had gone into their “internal systems”, taken the embargoed story, and published it. Can’t wait for the next revision!

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Jason 17 Apr 12

I’d be surprised to learn that the Sun Herald even had seven staff… You mean Herald Sun.

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Hoin 17 Apr 12

@Jason: I’d be surprised if the Sun Herald had seven readers.

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