Journalist Buzz Rothfield back from ‘sin bin’ after revelation of financial links with gambler

Tim Burrowes

September 4, 2016 11:05

News Corp’s controversial sports writer Phil “Buzz” Rothfield has returned to reporting five weeks after it was revealed he received payments from a notorious gambling figure.

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Rothfield’s What’s The Buzz column returned to the company’s Sunday tabloids today. In the column, Rothfield – sports editor-at-large – says that an internal investigation by News Corp has found that his journalism was not compromised by his financial dealings with Eddie Hayson.

At the end of July, Fairfax media journalists Nick McKenzie and Kate McClymont alleged that Hayson had made multiple cash deposits into Rothfield’s TAB account.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.