Daily Mail Blasted for Coverage of Lawsuit Claiming JWT Discriminated Against Men

WPP, Wunderman Thompson and equality advocates say the newspaper crossed a line

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Britain’s newspaper watchdog, the Independent Press Standards Organisation, has received 63 complaints, with more expected to come, in response to coverage by the Daily Mail of a U.K. tribunal that determined agency JWT had discriminated against two male creative directors.

In the two weeks since Adweek broke the story of the tribunal’s decision, the Daily Mail and several other British news outlets have covered the lawsuit brought against JWT—which was later merged into WPP’s Wunderman Thompson—by laid-off creatives Chas Bayfield and Dave Jenner.

Bayfield and Jenner claimed they were terminated discriminatorily because they were straight, white, middle-aged men.

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