Some of Australia’s largest media companies including NewsCorp and Nine Entertainment, have pleaded guilty to contempt of court and breaching suppression orders over their coverage of the Cardinal George Pell trial.
The companies submitted guilty pleas in exchange for the Victorian Supreme Court dismissing its charges against individual journalists who illegally published details of the case.
Cardinal Pell, once the third most powerful member of the Catholic Church, had five child sexual abuse convictions overturned last year.