Letter between two media heavyweights was revealed on day six of the journalist’s unlawful termination claim against broadcaster

ABC’s chief political correspondent Laura Tingle wrote to the then chair Ita Buttrose to express her “deep concern” that someone senior had leaked information about Antoinette Lattouf’s dismissal to News Corp’s the Australian newspaper, the federal court was told.

An article about Lattouf’s removal from ABC Sydney radio was published by the Australian shortly after the journalist was called in and told she could not return to finish her two shifts because she posted about the Israel-Gaza war.

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