Journalist Mark Di Stefano (Image: SBS)

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It’s the great law of a high profile figure in Australia’s tall-poppy filled media — when they fall, the response splits between their mates who can’t see what the big deal is, and those whose response simply thrums with schadenfreude.

So it was former BuzzFeed Australia scoop getter Mark Di Stefano, who last weekend resigned from his new role with the Financial Times after it was found that he had spied on a meeting in which several reporters for The Independent and the Evening Standard found out they were being furloughed and/or facing pay cuts.