Yes it's heartbreaking isn't it!
I have no idea if this is accurate or not, but a poster to an Australian Blog site recently quoted a very senior person at the Sydney Morning Herald describe her as follows:
"We did not want her writing for the paper anymore so we created a web position for her. We had no idea that it would come to this. She is now completely mad".
Perhaps she will be making further sacrifices in terms of job security and money soon.