‘Our reputation is trashed’: anonymous staffer criticises SMH management over Rebel Wilson coverage

Email sent to all reporters states our newsroom has become the story' but editor Bevan Shields insists we are a great masthead'

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Anger about the Sydney Morning Herald's reporting of Rebel Wilson's new relationship has boiled over into the newsroom, with an anonymous staffer sending an email to colleagues claiming the paper's reputation was being trashed".

Here we are again - our newsroom has become the story," the email sent on Monday afternoon stated. It referenced a February controversy when the editor, Bevan Shields, wrongly insisted a train network shutdown ordered by the state government was a strike.

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