The Sunday Times has just announced Cal Flyn as the winner of its Young Writer of the Year award, and with it a cheque for £5,000.
The newspaper ran a long article on Flyn in its Culture magazine, but omitted to mention one key fact – that she had worked for the paper for five years until 2014.
It might have been more honourable for the paper to declare that Flyn was one of its own.
The paper also forgot to mention that her two books, Islands of Abandonment, which came out last year, and her first one, published in 2016, Thicker Than Water, were both published by HarperCollins, which, like the Sunday Times, is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
A win for Flyn, a win for Murdoch
Cal Flyn's win as The Sunday Times Young Writer of the year may have been helped by the fact that Flyn worked for the paper for five years and that her two books are published by HarperCollins - also owned by Rupert Murdoch
