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Seven hires ‘Choppergate’ reporter Melissa Mallet

Just three weeks after 'faking' a live cross to Nine News in Brisbane, reporter Melissa Mallet has been hired by Seven's Townsville station.

Just three weeks after ‘faking’ a live cross to Nine News in Brisbane, reporter Melissa Mallet has been hired by Seven’s Townsville station.

Mallet, who was one of three people sacked by Nine, was exposed by Channel Seven staff in Brisbane.

The Sunday Mail reports she will start work in a couple of weeks as a news producer for Seven.

She recently said of her dismissal to the Courier Mail, “The legal advice I had was pretty positive and reassuring that there was a case, but I obviously had to weigh up some options.”

15 Responses

  1. Seven Townsville, is a different beast than the metro station, including a lighter work schedule (no weekend bulletins)…

    The regional station in QLD also has it’s own news director, Rex Clark: who oversaw the transformation of the QLD regional news service in the last few years, into easily, the best regional news bulletin (in both terms of content, and look) in Australia.

    I’d expect, once the heat from “Choppergate” dies down in Brisbane, the BTQ news director, will likely look at bringing Mallet to Brisbane again.

  2. Good for her

    She’ll probably be making more money as a producer for the higher rating Network anyway. Probably the best thing to happen to her career..

  3. Gary, I agree it’s not her fault. But Seven is sending a very strange message by picking her up after they were the ones who set in motion the events that led to her sacking.

  4. Hang on a minute here people. Nine sacked the reporter when it wasn’t her fault. From my understanding of the matter she was told to do this and there were things that went down. I don’t defend what happened by any means but Nine were the ones who over reacted here. Seven have picked up a very good journalist.

  5. Any chance Seven had to claim the moral high ground in this little saga has now evaporated. They’ve shown it wasn’t the lack of journalistic integrity shown by the reporters/producers that compelled them to investigate, it was just their need to discredit the opposition.

    Not that that’s news, I guess.

  6. Perhaps they could send her and Mike Duffy over to Perth for CHOGM. She could walk an empty suitcase past a traffic-diversion roadblock several kilometres from where the meeting will take place the following day and claim she has breached security.

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