Guardian leaders clash over who calls the shots
Conflict between editor and chief executive of Left-leaning news publisher
Katharine Viner, the Guardian s editor, and the media group s chief executive Annette Thomas (right)
The
Guardian’s two most senior executives are engaged in a power struggle that colleagues fear may force a change of leadership,
The Telegraph can reveal.
The editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, and Annette Thomas, the chief executive, have repeatedly clashed over control of the finances and direction of the
Guardian during the pandemic, according to multiple insiders.
One said: “It boils down to who calls the shots.”
Relations between the women are said to have broken down to such an extent that senior staff in both commercial and editorial departments believe one of them may have to leave unless a peace deal can be brokered by the Scott Trust, the £1bn endowment which owns the
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