David Penberthy


Daily Tele settles Blomfield defamation suit

A day after emails between former Daily Tele editor David Penberthy and Vivienne Dye were tendered as evidence in the Blomfield vs. News Limited sexual harassment defamation case, it was settled out of court.

Editor on a G-string: the Penberthy-Dye emails

A defamation action against the Daily Telegraph reveals a little of the inner world of its former editor.

Fielding hopeless no matter the spelling

Any criticism of Family First Senator Steve Fielding is dismissed as an ideological attack from the agnostic purveyors of individualism on the Left. Infuriating, says Jason Whittaker.

Muslim = Al Qaeda … Penbo’s Punch in top comic form

There are some Australian cricket fans still furious at England’s time wasting to draw the first Ashes test, none more so than “Steve”, the mysterious friend of The Punch Editor David Penberthy.

Cake and Bindi Irwin? There are bigger gummi bears to fry

Icon of crocodile stuff, Bindi Irwin, is spruiking packet chocolate cake mix, and Rosemary Stanton isn’t happy. Nor is David Penberthy. But they’re both missing the point, writes David Gillespie.

Crikey Counterpoint: two verdicts on The Punch

Day one of News Ltd’s bold new online venture The Punch, and the verdicts are in from Guy Rundle and Mumbrella.

Hello world: News Ltd’s The Punch swings in to action

The Punch is a new opinion website, writes editor David Penberthy. It’s not a fancy, la-di-dah site aimed at people with three university degrees, nor is it a site for yobbos who want to engage in mindless abuse.

Media briefs: Another Murdoch raid on Australian media

Beating News to The Punch… Fox bares its teeth over X-Men…

Paul Armstrong joins the former-editor club of Australia

The last twelve months has seen a massive movement of deckchairs aboard the vessels that are the nation’s metropolitan daily newspapers, writes Margaret Simons.

Is this the most useless editor in Australia?

That’s the question being asked of David Penberthy, Editor of the rag responsible for publishing the most outrageous piece of trash printed in an Australian newspaper for the last decade, writes Possum Comitatus.