EDITOR'S NOTE: The High Court overturned Cardinal George Pell's conviction for historic child sex offences in a judgment handed down April 7, 2020. In a unanimous decision all seven High Court judges found Victoria's Court of Appeal should not have upheld Pell's conviction It found the evidence could not support a guilty verdict.

Dozens of Australia's leading media editors and journalists, including staff at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, could face prison for contempt of court over allegations they breached a suppression order in reports published after George Pell's conviction on child sex abuse charges.

Victoria's Director of Public Prosecutions, Kerri Judd, QC, has named 36 organisations and individuals in a motion before the Supreme Court and applied that they be found guilty, convicted and either imprisoned or fined.

Editors of The Age, The Herald Sun, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney's Daily Telegraph and the Australian Financial Review are all named in the motion.

The Age and its owner, Nine Entertainment, The Herald and Weekly Times and Nationwide News, the publisher of The Daily Telegraph, are among the organisations in the motion.