Australian Financial Review removes ‘trivialising’ references to female journalists after ABC and Seven complain

Media companies complain over the incorrect' way two female Victorian reporters were described in an AFR article

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The Australian Financial Review has removed references to two female journalists from an article after complaints by the ABC and the Seven Network about the newspaper's trivialising" portrayal of their employees.

But the Nine Entertainment-owned paper stopped short of apologising to the women, attaching instead a clarification" at the foot of the article.

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