Sources say the ABC newsroom was in chaos on Monday as news executives scrambled to coordinate the rolling coverage across platforms without her expertise, leading to tempers flaring.
Although Seven was across the road from the Lindt cafe and in the prime position to film the ongoing action, it also had a huge disadvantage as it had to relocate its entire newsroom shortly after the crisis began.
Seven had to evacuate its Martin Place glass studios and relocate and build a temporary Sydney newsroom and TV studio in its corporate Pyrmont offices, all while staying on air and providing rolling coverage.
Many in the newsroom have reacted angrily following a string of hirings from outside the organisation over the past year, since former Times editor James Harding was appointed director of news and current affairs.
Sky newsroom reporters and one paper's gossip columnist were recently recruited.
The ABC's audience wouldn't have heard of Jennifer Evans but she was the assistant chief of staff in the Sydney newsroom for many years, a highly skilled job in which she coordinated and organised dozens of crews, journalistic assignments and reporters on any given day.
In a farewell email to the newsroom, Ives wrote that she wasn't given any "concrete reason" except "budget restraints and reviews of staff" and that she was proud of working on the great product that was SBS World News.
According to the Sunday Times, the order to stop the presses was made by Stephen Rae, group editor of INM's titles, a decision which led to "a heated discussion in the newsroom".
The day before, police raided Borisovskyie Novosti, an independent weekly in Barysaw, a town in the Minsk region, confiscating newsroom equipment.
Lachlan remains a News Corp non-executive director and prompted talk of a return to the family business when he made a tour of the newsroom at News International's headquarters in Wapping with his father, ahead of the launch of the Sunday edition of the Sun earlier this year.
Downton's Bonneville had tipped Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston, who plays White, for the best lead actor gong but in the end the pair both lost out to Jeff Daniels for his performance in Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom.
