The Tennant Creek and District Times’ owner, editor and reporter Tash Adams’ role as the Barkly Regional Council media advisor and executive assistant to the Mayor and chief executive officer has been described as “ethically untenable” by a journalism ethics academic.

Ms Adams was employed as the Barkly Regional Council’s media and communications officer in December, before being promoted in July to “executive manager”, according to her Linkedin page, while it shows she purchased the newspaper in December 2017, having been the editor since 1999.

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