Daily Mail Pays Out in Defamation Lawsuit Over JWT Coverage

Newspaper apologizes for 'distress' caused in settlement

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British Newspaper the Daily Mail has paid “substantial damages” and issued an apology to Wunderman Thompson global creative director Jo Wallace following its coverage of a discrimination lawsuit brought against the business under its former title JWT.

Last year, The Daily Mail (along with several other British news outlets) covered the lawsuit brought against JWT—which was later merged into WPP’s Wunderman Thompson—by laid-off creatives Chas Bayfield and Dave Jenner.

The Daily Mail’s reporting centered on a U.K.

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