Riddle Us This: Why Did NewsGuard Hire A Senior Editor Accused of Gross ‘Misconduct?’

NewsBusters ^ | 6/5/2025 | Joseph Vazquez

[JV3MRC]

A tipster brought MRC Business’s attention to some damning information about one of website traffic cop NewsGuard’s senior editors, which begs the question of why she was even hired in the first place.

Dina Contini, who had previously served in various editorial roles at liberal outlet Reuters, currently serves as the senior managing editor of NewsGuard. However, it appears that Contini has a sordid history of being accused of creating hostile work environments and engaging in harassment.

“In a ‘Management Conduct Notice’ that the journalists’ union sent on Sept. 21 [to Reuters’s top brass], it claimed Dina Kyriakidou Contini, the US general news editor, had engaged in ‘bullying, belittling and berating of subordinates for alleged shortcomings,” according to the New York Post on February 7, 2019. In addition, the notice also reportedly stipulated that Contini had “engaged in ‘inappropriate, unsolicited hugging and touching, and the use of patronizing, unprofessional language such as ‘darling,’ ‘sexy,’ and ‘baby’ with subordinates.”

But it gets worse. As The Post reported, the notice “claimed she showed ‘a lack of editorial judgment or indifference to the facts of a story in process if those facts are at odds with a preconceived notion of a story.” The Daily Beast also reported around the same time that Reuters’ editorial union said the “company management as a whole has failed to respond to multiple complaints" about Contini's alleged "misconduct."

How in the world does that fly for a company like NewsGuard whose entire modus operandi is based on legitimizing itself as the saintly truth gatekeepers of the internet?

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: censorship; dinacontini; newsguard; orwellian; reuters

[Dr. Sivana]

Maybe because an “accusation” may not be the same as actually having done anything wrong?

[Jim W N]

Why Did NewsGuard Hire A Senior Editor Accused of Gross ‘Misconduct?’

Because NewsGuard is NewsBusters competitor?

[SunkenCiv]

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[Major Matt Mason]

Sounds like your typical boss babe.

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[MrRelevant]

Why did liberal America hire a senile racist pedophile to be President? Their depravity knows no bounds thats why.